Upgrading a G3 AIO w/ Parts From B&W G3?

#1 Sun, 8 Apr 2007 - 09:35 PPCMLA

I'd like to upgrade my G3 AIO with RAM from a G3 B&W and replace its 266 Mhz G3 w/ the 300 Mhz G3 from the B&W. Are these components compatible? Will I need to change the jumpers on the G3 AIO?

#2 Sun, 8 Apr 2007 - 09:50 PPCMLA

I'm not sure about the RAM, but if the CPUs have the same ZIF socket, then they should be compatible. Just set the lumpers on the AIO to whatever speed you want it to be, but try to have it right around 300MHz.
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Power Macintosh G4
B&W Power Macintosh G4
Power Macintosh 6500/225

#3 Sun, 8 Apr 2007 - 10:25 PPCMLA

This page helped me immensely in figuring out what to change the jumper settings to in my Beige G3. I went for the stock PCI and system bus speeds to stay on the safe side, as well as the rated clock speed for my CPU. You do need to change the jumpers otherwise your new CPU will run at 266 MHz - you'll need to use a pin or similar to extract the metal bits from the jumper block in order to change them around
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Main system: custom C2D 2.66GHz tower/4GB RAM/2600XT 512 MB/500GB HD/XP Pro x86+Vista Business x64
Main Mac: Beige G3 minitower (Sonnet G4 500MHz/640 MB DVD/USB/Radeon 32 MB/OS 9.2.2+10.4.11)

#4 Sun, 8 Apr 2007 - 11:11 PPCMLA

I usually use a needle for the little pins on thise jumper blocks. They're gonna be a pain no matter what you do...
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PPC Macs:

Power Macintosh G4
B&W Power Macintosh G4
Power Macintosh 6500/225

#5 Mon, 9 Apr 2007 - 07:25 PPCMLA

you can use both ram and cpu for you beige. I´m running my beige at 87mhz bus without any problems. maybe you give it a try. It´s a noticable speed increase.

#6 Thu, 6 Sep 2007 - 07:16 PPCMLA

Yea the B&W ram will work 100% in a Beige G3, really they use the same standard but only the B&W G3 has a faster system bus (100mhz) and runs the memory at the same speed as the system bus.

you even have the same limit for the Beige G3 for the 256mb sticks of ram as the B&W G3/Yikes G4 system. if its the wrong type the system will either not work or the system will show only 128mb for that stick.

the 3 256mb sticks i bought for my Beige G3 AIO is for a B&W G3. i got them from DMS ( data memory systems) they are $22 a pop ($26 when i bought them).
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Beige G3 AIO:
Rev B rom, Rev 2 mobo, G3 466mhz, 448mb ram, WD 120gb HDD, Pioneer DVR-110D, ATI Radeon 7000, USB PCI, OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.4.8

#7 Fri, 7 Sep 2007 - 20:51 PPCMLA

my beige g3 is a 300 mhz overclocked to 366
michael