On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Jack Countryman wrote:

> If you can find the parts, the video cards in those machines are
> replaceable.  By swapping in a different card from another AIO you  
> could
> have a better idea of whether its the motherboard, card, or perhaps  
> the
> monitor that is bad?  Note that there are two versions of those  
> video cards,
> one that has audio in/out ports and a simpler one that didn't have  
> those
> ports.

By the way those are not the video cards, those are called  
Personality Cards. The beige G3's used integrated video chips.

> Since the video connector that goes to the built-in monitor in the  
> AIO is
> not the standard 15 pin connector used for external monitors on  
> other macs
> of that era, it will be more difficult if not impossible to try an  
> external
> monitor (neither card has an external 15 pin video out port to  
> attach an
> external monitor)

There is a video out plug on the back of the AIO

> .  The internal video cable uses a different port/connector
> that doesn't fit the external monitors...so you would have to adapt  
> the
> connectors somehow to try an external monitor?

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