Mac G3 (Blue & White)

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:58 am

First off I never play with macs, but anyway...

I got this G3, I know it has like 768mb sdram, and for some reason it had 2 ati rage 128 cards...

I tried pluggin it in and it turned on but I had no video from either card, no beeps or whistles, and I wanna have a rough idea of what it probably is...

When I tested it, it was plugged into my acer lcd that I use for normal PC stuff, no keyboard or mouse were connected, no speakers either

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:40 am

dead CPU ?
no beep(s), no display, no keyboard light, ...
(led on motherboard was lighted-on though)

that was happened to my PC, for MAC ymmv

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:42 am

was there a fan noise?

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:11 am

"Thank you for acquiring the brand new iBrick(tm)."

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:48 am

franpa wrote:was there a fan noise?

Fans kicked on, hard drives were bein kicked in and possibly read based on vibrations every now and then, disc drive seemed alright

I'm not sure if either video card works

I know if had 2 ATi Rage 128 cards
2 ATA HDDs (diff brands) both 40GB I think
400 MHz (Sonnet?)
768MB pc133 sdram (stock was 64mb I'm guessing)

Post by **odditude** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:54 pm

if there's no apple bong, it's not completing the equivalent of POST.

pull one of the video cards and all but one of the dimms (they're probably all 256MB, but if it's 1x512 2x128 make it one of the 128MB ones).

while you're in there, look for bad caps and scorch marks on the motherboard and all ICs, and sniff the power supply for that lovely burned-electronics smell.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:55 am

Ok I have the newer of the two video cards in there, I tried each stick of ram and I got 3 beeps on one of them, nothin happened with another, and one stick I got video

So atm, I have a 256 in there (first one I got video with), and another 256 in slot 2 (boots up with video), and tossed aside the one that gave the beeping

I get the bong, an apple logo comes up, then goes to the stop logo (or whatever it is)

I didn't have a mouse or keyboard plugged in, which I would assume it's complaining about

Post by **odditude** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:11 am

stop logo? sounds like it can't find the OS...

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:48 pm

odditude wrote:stop logo? sounds like it can't find the OS...

If it's somethin that small it'd be awsome...

Can the G3 accept a normal USB keyboard by chance?

Post by **odditude** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:57 pm

ReRuss wrote:Can the G3 accept a normal USB keyboard by chance?

indeed, but ymmv - don't expect "special" keys to be mapped sanely (or exist at all).

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:59 pm

well it'd be helpful if it'd work just to get somethin goin...

it does like this atm and nothin else... completely foreign to a pc guy lmao

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:40 pm

I believe this mac developped sentience and is pleading you to help it out of its misery.

Using violence.

Post by **odditude** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:56 pm

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:05 am

Ahh okies

I got a PS/2 keyboard working via usb adapter, and got Finnix to boot off a disc so I know it'll boot a disc...

Guess I'll try runnin an OSX disc see how that goes, if that all works out I'll try finding some parts to bring it up a notch...

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:05 pm

After tons of searching, I got OSX 10.4 Tiger and it's installed and working

I also found that the newer stick of ram seemed to be problematic, but I can settle with 512mb

I'll play with it more tomorrow, try tweakin it a bit for some speed, throw firefox on it, some codecs, few apps, and some emus

Hyos · Post by **Hyos** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:05 pm

http://www.apple.com/games/

My guess is you could try Baldur's Gate and Diablo 2 with those specs.

Diablo 2 system requirements:

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System Requirements

Single-Player System Requirements
 Mac OS 8.1 or higher
 PowerPC G3 processor or higher
 64MB of Memory with Virtual Memory turned on
 650MB of hard disk space
 4X CD-ROM drive or faster
 Video support for 256 color display at 800x600 Resolution or higher

Multiplayer System Requirements
 64MB of Memory with Virtual Memory turned on
 950MB of hard disk space
 28.8Kbps modem or faster
 Up to 8 Players over TCP/IP Network or Battle.net (Requires low-latency Internet connection with support for 32-bit applications)

Optional Mac 3D Acceleration
 Supports Glide, OpenGL (v.1.1.2 or higher), or RAVE

Post by **odditude** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:44 pm

Hyos wrote:http://www.apple.com/games/

My guess is you could try Baldur's Gate and Diablo 2 with those specs.

my guess is that his existing PC is already more than capable of playing the far easier-to-find PC versions of those games.

if you're going to recommend any games, they should probably be mac-exclusives like Marathon et al.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:31 pm

odditude wrote:if you're going to recommend any games, they should probably be mac-exclusives like FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE !!1!

Killa B · Post by **Killa B** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:17 pm

Bugdom is a pretty sweet Mac game. I played the shit out of it on the computers in elementary school.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:38 am

My school had shit on he computers for games. Aside from educational games, I recall this odd tetris type game that had a lot of odd special bricks that'd do weird stuff and had sound I think. Other than that, lots of Mavis Beacon and some other typing thing with furry anthropomorphic animals.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:52 am

I think gaming isn't gonna be somethin I'll do, unless there's something mac-exclusive I wanna try

In the end, it'll probably be cleaned up and given to my mom, since she'd have more use of it than I would

EDIT - I also found some sdram ram that works fine with it, bumps it up to 768mb, and when I checked the specs to make sure it recognized it fine, I noticed it actually had the 733MHz G4 upgrade

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:09 am

So I sanded down the apple scuffs and glazed em, and swapped the G3 stickers for something that screamed 1999