Beige G3/Xpostfacto/OSX/Black Screen/Video Card Fix
I asked this question once before and I have lost the replies, I will be sure to copy them to a file and keep them somewhere safe if the people on the list would please be kind enough to answer the question again. I have a beige G3/266 and using xpostfacto I get the black screen when ever i try to run certain programs. I heard that this problem could be fixed by putting a video card in the Beige G3. I have an apple monitor on there now so if the video card has a PC type connector I will need some sort of adapter to make the monitor work. Could I first have your recommendations on video cards and if they need an adapter for my mac type monitor to work? I read this list every day with out fail and you guys are the best... Thanks in advanced!! Gus. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Beige G3/Xpostfacto/OSX/Black Screen/Video Card Fix
Xpostfacto on beige g3's have always had video problems. Definitely get a PCI video card. I have a beige g3 with a 16mb PCI video card, a G4 500MHZ sonnet upgrade processor, with a 40GB hard drive running mac os 10.3.9. Runs great and without the video problems that come with the original video card. -Jonas On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Gus gusr...@comcast.net wrote: I asked this question once before and I have lost the replies, I will be sure to copy them to a file and keep them somewhere safe if the people on the list would please be kind enough to answer the question again. I have a beige G3/266 and using xpostfacto I get the black screen when ever i try to run certain programs. I heard that this problem could be fixed by putting a video card in the Beige G3. I have an apple monitor on there now so if the video card has a PC type connector I will need some sort of adapter to make the monitor work. Could I first have your recommendations on video cards and if they need an adapter for my mac type monitor to work? I read this list every day with out fail and you guys are the best... Thanks in advanced!! Gus. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Beige G3/Xpostfacto/OSX/Black Screen/Video Card Fix
On Jan 1, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Gus wrote: I asked this question once before and I have lost the replies, This list is 100% archived: Older archives (prior to the move to Google Groups) are available here: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-l...@mail.maclaunch.com/ Newer archives are available both at Mail-Archive.com and Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en I have a beige G3/266 and using xpostfacto I get the black screen when ever I try to run certain programs. I heard that this problem could be fixed by putting a video card in the Beige G3. I have an apple monitor on there now so if the video card has a PC type connector I will need some sort of adapter to make the monitor work. Could I first have your recommendations on video cards and if they need an adapter for my mac type monitor to work? You'll need a Radeon card and a VGA to Mac adapter if you're going to use your old monitor. You may want to consider an LCD monitor since they can pay for themselves in electricity savings. Most Radeon cards have a VGA (PC) port and will need a VGA-to-Mac adapter to work with old Mac monitors. Most LCDs have a DVI port now (VGA is on the way out), and the real Mac Radeon cards all have both a VGA DVI port with an third S-Video port also. The flashed PC Radeon cards often have only one or two ports instead of all three. A Radeon 7000 PCI is the model most commonly used (and cheapest). Better cards are the Radeon 9200 which is a little pricey for an old Beige, and various flashed PC cards that are normally both cheaper and faster than Mac cards, although sometimes this isn't the case. You can probably get a Radeon card and a VGA-to-Mac adapter on LEM- Swap list cheaply with a WTB: posting. Be sure to be careful about the adapter, they come both ways, VGA-to-Mac and Mac-to-VGA. You want the VGA on the video card side and the Mac on the monitor side. If you install a Radeon card, you can enable Quartz Extreme with PCI Extreme 3.1 available here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8979 Good luck! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
