The board will fit, I have 3 beige G3s with B&W boards (+ ATX power supplies). The ports in the rear of the B&W board do not line up with the beige case so you will need to cut away some of the plastic. The other problem is mounting the board so it doesn't contact the case bottom; if any part touches you won't get startup or, worse yet, you might damage the board. You need to break the mounting posts off the bottom of the beige case. I finally settled on some self-stick plastic feet and supermount tape from my local Radio Shack. The feet are non- conductive and stick directly to the bottom of the board, then a piece of supermount tape will stick the foot to the bottom of the beige case. Disclaimer (before someone tries to have me committed) I only did this because I inherited a bunch of beige G3s and Mac parts that were being tossed by a local business. Considering the time involved and cost of misc. parts to purchase it's probably more cost effective to pick up a used G4 off the Swap List or your local Craigslist. Having said that, I have great fun using my beige G3 desktop, Sonnet G4 500 CPU, B&W mobo, 1 GB RAM, SATA card with 3 SATA drives in a RAID 0 array, and a flashed GeForce 6200/256 MB PCI video card (CI and QE supported!) OS X 10.4.11
On Apr 11, 1:38 am, Mullin9 <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir > I have a G3 266 Beige, with fried LoBo, > and the working LoBo Pulled from the PowerMac G3 Blue n White, > Will it fit in the G3 Beige casing,? > > / --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
