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From what I've seen, older computers are most often plagued by capacitor problems - I'd check the caps first. If they're bad, search the forum for 'capacitor' and you'll get a good few useful hits.

A G3/450 would be nice for my pimpin' beige desktop... Have any tested, and would they work in a desktop beigey? 83mhz bus means it would run at a cool 500mhz at least (technically an underclocking - the proc speed setting is the same for 500mhz at 83mhz as 400mhz at 66.)

If any of you all who are setting up BBSen for the RC would be kind enough to provide it with a phone number, at least temporarily, I'd love to be able to connect with my Cat or Olivetti.

Speaking of Photoshop... I don't think that would be a problem, even CS4 should be able to run fairly well if my experiences with it on Windows machines translate over (I'm running it on my EeePC 1000 (1.6ghz Atom dual core with 2gb RAM) and it runs fine, and fast enough to do pretty much...

How much do you plan on shifting them for? I'm not really looking for new computers, but a fairly powerful Mac like those for a decent price would be good.

Why why why why WHY do you have equal amounts of graphics and main memory?

/me looks at EeePC 1000 in front of him. Christ, man, does that thing leave indentations in your lap? Or burn marks? Also, bwahaha, my Eee has the same amount of RAM.

Heh, I got the EeePC 1000, four hundred bucks from NewEgg. I've been playing around with it - TFC and Half-Life work with high settings, Half-Life 2 will run well on low settings but inexplicably crash whenever you try to go through a load screen. TF2 without sound has similar issues (with sound...

If you were using a Classic or Plus you could legitimately say that your calculator is twice as fast as your computer >> I'm doing a sorta-minichallenge ATM by soldering together lots and lots of null modem cables and making all my computers talk to each other with them. Currently I've...

There was a utility to do this with Windows laptops I saw a while ago... can't remember the name.

Bus speed on mine is 83.

Because the beige can take 768mb of RAM, while my iMac could only take 512 (don't have any 512mb sticks, so bleh to people who say it can take 1gb) the proc is faster (500mhz upgrade card in there right now, upclocked to 550) the hard drive is considerably larger (80gb vs 10) and I have no need...

You might be able to run Microsoft Xenix! :p

It's a habit that comes about from working on boats too much.

Well, today I traded my seldom-used iMac 400mhz for a nice beige desktop g3 - technically the iMac is still mine, it's just residing somewhere else. This one is a bit more friendly than the last one I had - still trying to fix that one, but don't care too much. Anyway, it's a nice old box -...

ARRRGH! Got the 400mhz upgrade card, installed it according to the instructions. No video. Reinstalled the original proc and jumper thing. Video, but now there's a hard drive problem. It spins up, then abruptly stops before loading anything. The other drives I've tried do the same thing, so...

Woo! This thing has been upgraded and is working properly (posting from it now.) Pushed its pathetic 233mhz up to 333 for now, seems perfectly stable with a good fan, though when I get my 400mhz upgrade card I'm going to push that up to at least 450, maybe 500 if I can get stable performance...

Well, purchased a guaranteed working 400mhz proc off eBay for $14 shipped... Seemed too weird to have a machine with 768mb RAM and a 30gb HD with a 233mhz proc. What's the average max stable speed of a 400mhz g3? I'm thinking about trying to push it up to 450 or so if that wouldn't cause problems.

RESOLVED. Seems that something on the hard disk that for some reason was loaded even while booting from CD was causing the problem. Now it seems slow, but just because I'm used to faster computers, and the boot times are back in the 1min 30sec range. Gonna grab a cheap CPU upgrade card from...

Well, fixed the slowness problem, but now when I try to install a new 400mhz g3 upgrade card, I get a bong but no display. Ram is confirmed good, as is video. CUDA reset and PRAM reset both tried. Different jumper settings tried. It works when I swap the old proc back in, with the exception of...