Don't give up. Once you get it working it will work great. I know someone who uses a beige g3 as a dvd player wit her tv. For really good quality input and out put you will need to get a beige g3 with the later revision motherboard. If you look on the motherboard it will tell you what video card you have. The old one was something like "ati rage II" and the newest one that came with the latest revision motherboard was something like "ATI Rage 128 Pro." The difference is amazing. I know for sure that the 300MHZ minitower came with the better graphics. DON"T GIVE UP!!!!!!!! -Jonas
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, mythmaker18 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmm, a button to press at startup? Would be great if that were the > solution! Otherwise, I think I'll probably have to buy one of those > VGA-to-TV converter boxes (that sell for $20-plus). It's a 266MHz > desktop, but when I found they were compatible, I fixed the jumper > settings and replaced the stock processor with a 400MHz one from a Rev. > 1 B/W G3 tower. > > Just looking for a way to play my old 8/16-bit games (SNES, Genesis, > MAME) on the 25-inch TV downstairs (instead of having to use a desktop > monitor). Thought the beige G3 would be a natural for this with its > personality card, but had no idea there'd be all these roadblocks! > > Andy > > > > On Jan 21, 1:34 pm, jonas ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: > > My first Beige g3 minitower worked great with the tv as its only monitor. > I > > thing there might be a key you press at startup. There also might be an > > extension. How fast is the computer? The older beige g3s had and older > video > > card that made the video inputs and outputs look like crap. However, the > > latest minitowers that they made had great graphics.-Jonas > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:13 AM, mythmaker18 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I was wanting to turn an old Beige G3 desktop machine of mine into a > > > "video game box" and thought I'd be able to simply run RCA (or S- > > > Video) from the personality card's outputs to my TV's inputs. Although > > > the sound comes through, I can NOT get the picture on the TV. > > > > > The ONLY way I've been able to make this work was to hook up an actual > > > monitor to the monitor port and turn on "Mirroring" in the control > > > strip. Sucky thing is, though, mirroring doesn't stay on after a > > > restart/shutdown: it has to be turned on anew each time the machine is > > > booted. > > > > > Does anyone here know of any way I can get this mac to use a TV as its > > > only display, without having to have a "real" monitor attached? I feel > > > like I've tried everything (even bought one of those cheapo VGA-to-RCA/ > > > SVideo cables and that didn't work. > > > > > I have both a VGA card in the PCI slot and onboard video. Tried both. > > > > > The reason I think this is SUPPOSED to work is that when I googled the > > > subject, I came across some old forum postings from a guy who says he > > > uses a TV as his beige G3's only display and it just "works" for him > > > (couldn't tell me how to make it work for me, though). > > > > > Would really like to put this old machine to use, but there's no way > > > I'm going to add a computer monitor to my entertainment cabinet, too. > > > > > Can anybody help? Tried using both MacOS 8.5 and 9.1. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
