That is an interesting idea about the FrankenMac. Will the board fit in the tower case easily or do you have to mod it?
Jason On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Matthew Lawrence wrote:
First, go to your Apple System Profiler, to see how much VRAM is installed
in your AIO. 2MB VRAM was the standard configuration, on all beige G3s, and
the only available upgrade is a 4MB VRAM module that fits into the slot just
to the left of (looking from the rear of the Mac) the PERCH slot that your
A/V card occupies. This will give you a maximum of 6MB VRAM, although I
think OS X (all versions) requires more, for the amount of colors that
you're talking about.
That I know of, there's no way to upgrade, and continue using the built-in
monitor, which is plugged into your A/V card. Even if you was to install a
PCI graphics card (I'm using an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition - 32MB VRAM),
you'd need a second monitor, since there's no way, that I know of, to
interface the built-in monitor with a PCI graphics card. As for getting the
A/V card to actually work like that, under OS X, I haven't a clue, since I
bought my G3 with the audio I/O card.
Now if you're up to the challenge, you could always look for a beige G3 MT
case on eBay, and use the "guts" of your AIO in that. I was "forced" to do
such, when the power supply in my AIO died on me, last summer, and after
languishing with mom's Performa 6360 for several months, I found an empty
beige G3 MT case on an eBay auction. If you go this route, make sure the
case has the power supply and expansion bay drive sleds, at the very least.
What I got also included the floppy drive, and 24x CD-ROM drive, while
another auction offered nothing but a beige MT case that didn't even have
drive sleds or bezels.
The only reason I mention the above "FrankenMac" concept is because of my
experience of dealing with an AIO with a dead power supply. Macintosh
specific power supplies ain't cheap, but the prices for even REFURBISHED AIO
power supplies is enough to cause some sticker shock. Currently, the only
place I've found selling an AIO power supply is MacResource Computers
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/macresource/powersupplies.html and $229.99 is
more than the current slew of AIOs that Mega Macs
http://www.megamacs.com/v1/index.php?cat=10001 is selling.
I wish you the best of luck, with this, and I hope that other G-Listers will
be able to offer more/better solutions than I can. But, at least this time,
I can speak from experience.
Matt in Indiana
--
"FrankenMac" beige G3 MT: 333MHz G3; 768MB RAM; 30GB & 20GB HD's; zip 750;
8x4x32 CDRW; Sonnet Tango USB 2.0/FireWire; M-Audio Audiophile 2496; ATI
Radeon 7000ME; OS X 10.2.8/OS 9.2.2
On 12/11/03 9:16 PM, "Jason Warm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. I am currently limited to thousands of colors at 1024x768 under OS
X 10.2.8, is there any way to get this to millions? I thought that the
built in video did support it, but the option always seems to be grayed
out.
2. Is there anyway to upgrade the video card and continue using the built in monitor? I don't have the desktop space to add a second monitor.
3. My system also has the A/V Personality card installed, does anyone
know how to get this working under OS X?
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