thanks, I am going to keep this and follow up on it a step at a time. Thanks again.
Robert Long Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:17:27 -0800 Subject: Re: Upgrade my Ge From: amanda.w...@comcast.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Re: Upgrade my Ge Robert, The B&W is a nice machine... I have two of them. Lessee... You can max out the ram to 1 GB (4 x 256 MB) There are some processor options. You can go to an Apple 450 MHz G3. You can install a 450 MHz G4 CPU from the first gen. G4 machines... the Yikes/PCI graphics. (Note: Going to a G4 CPU will most likely require a firmware update to unlock G4 compatibility and it cannot be installed in OS X) There are other CPUs available from suppliers such as OWC and Sonnet up to 1 GHz. (My twin Smurfs have the G4/450 CPU and performed admirably) Hard drives... The B&W has two different motherboards Rev. 1 and Rev. 2. The Rev. 1 is ===notorious=== for being finicky with anything but the original HD. The Rev. 2 resolved this problem. (To identify your system see: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html) The B&W is limited to to a maximum 128 GB, although this can be gotten around by using an add-on PCI/IDE adapter card. (OR using external USB or Firewire drives. At one point I had two 500GB USB drives connected.) Optical drives: Since I upgraded my machines, things may have changed, but at the time some DVD drives were not bootable in the B&W. Some research would be prudent. FWIW, I found a Lite-On drive that was bootable and burned all CD/DVD media. (Lite-On SHOW-1693S) Graphics: The stock video card had 16 MB VRAM and, in my case, worked just fine for most purposes. I did upgrade one machine to a Radeon 7500 (I think) w/64MB VRAM, not so much for the extra video memory, but it had two video outputs and I love having two displays to work with! ;-) Wireless: There are some options here... check eBay. I only had wireless on my B&W for a short period, because a – the network switch was less than a foot from the machine and b – I needed the card for a peecee I was using for a media center. I was using a Netgear card with a driver from OrangeWare (~ $15)... Seemed to work fine. That’s about all that comes to mind at the moment... Perhaps more caffeine will jostle a thought or two loose! Amanda My Macs: Mac SE Superdrive (Sylvester) Powerbook G3/266 Wallstreet (Waldo) iMac G3/266 (George) Powermac B&W G3 w/G4/450 x 2 (Bruce and Bryce) Powermac G4 Sawtooth 1.6GHz (Gregory) Powermac G4 GigE dual 450Mhz (Gene) Powermac G4 Digital Audio 733MHz (Dave) Powerbook G4 15” Al 1.5GHz (Albert) iMac G5 20” 1.8GHz (Warren) iMac Intel 20” Core 2 Dou 2.4 GHz (Irving) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
