Just to follow up on this, I bought the first card linked above with USB and firewire which was a good price:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133238042323
And it worked out of the box in my G3 minitower that had previously had a working Lucent based card in it. The previously installed drivers worked...
Cobalt60,
DId that combo card work out for you? Anyone know if there might be any issues with it in a G3 Minitower?
I have both USB and Firewire cards in it right now, but the USB ports are somewhat corroded and generally don't look in great shape. Inside the card looks fine, but both OS...
Success! Thank you all for the responses, it worked perfectly without any modification of the ATX connector as suggested. While in there I replaced the main fan with a 120 mm Arctic P12 and there is good air flow coming out and the PSU is also blowing out the rear, allowing intake along the...
The PSU I plan to put in has a rear facing fan. Is the concern that it will throttle it down at low output and be insufficient to cool the case? What if I bypass the internal temperature sensor in the PSU so the fan is on full all the time?
Ok, thanks, I had a feeling that was the case, but this post was rather explicit about the need to do this for the Minitower. Some other guy on Reddit 6 years ago or so claimed to have "blown up" his beige G3 by not doing it, though that didn't sound very credible. That said, the wire colors...
Hello all,
I recently pulled an old Beige G3 Minitower out of the basement to try to get it up and running again. After dusting it off I powered it up and out popped a non-bootable floppy that I guess had been left in it, and then it booted up into OS9.2 just long enough to give a few errors...