Actually, I have an XClaim VR128 in my old, G4-accelerated 7500 in the basement (which used to be my main computer). Always assumed the video ports were just for input. I might look into that and see if I can use the 7500 in this manner instead (since that card won't cost me anything additional). Just assumed the G3's built-in outputs would've been easier to work with.
It's pretty much a better machine anyway since it has a 10,000rpm SCSI3 PCI card/drive under the hood and a G4/400 processor and has as much (if not more) RAM installed anyway. Still wish I could figure out why the output on the G3 isn't working for me, though (hate unfinished puzzles!). As for the personality cards only working with certain motherboards: I also tried a beige mini-tower and it didn't work either. The card was pre-installed (it wasn't an upgrade), so one would assume the card should work with that particular computer. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. On Jan 21, 7:34 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 3:39 pm, mythmaker18 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jonas: > > I'm pretty sure it's a Revision 2 board. Most of the Beige G3s I > > bought at surplus were Revision 2 (unless this is the one I got as a > > "giveaway" from the local newspaper). Seems all the Revision 1 > > desktops I ever ran across has the "round" CD eject button. This one > > has the normal rectangular button. At any rate, I have about 4-5 of > > the mini-towers sitting in a closet that I could swap the ROM chips > > out for if it turns out to be a R1. > > > I just hope someone can help me overcome this video-out problem. > > Surely there are some "old-timers" who have done this before that know > > what they're doing! I can't say how many hours I've been working at > > this without any success (other than manually switching mirroring on > > after each startup, which as I said before, isn't really a viable > > solution). > > Maybe this will help. As you know, the video board in the Beige is on > the motherboard, so changing roms won't make any difference at all. > Also the video on the later personality card(s?) only worked with the > rev 3 boards if I remember correctly. I had a rev 1 board and a rev > C rom with the last personality card. I tried like the dickens to get > the video to work. No way. This is all poorly documented by Apple and > on the web. > > Anyway, I did some pretty sophisticated work with Final Cut on that > old Beige by adding an ATI Radeon 7000 video card. If I remember > correctly, this card has an svideo output so it would work for you. > Generally settings made on ATI cards tend to stick through reboots > until you turn them off. (I have a 96000 ATI card in a Quicksilver > that has had the video turned on for months, even though it isn't in > use.) The 7000 should have better video resolution than the > personality card anyway, a full 640 x 480 30fps. Those cards had half > that resolution, if I remember correctly. > > You should be able to get a Mac Radeon 7000 pci card for a few bucks. > Might solve your problem. > > Hope this helps, > Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
