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I finished taking apart and cleaning the B&W late last night.  I love the fact that apple made it so all the plastic could be removed and washed. I had already blow out the power supply with air when I removed it. But as the machine was so filthy, I decided to take the power supply apart...

I got lucky an dended up with a rev. 2 motherboard..... mraroid

Gorgonops.....   I hope I have not screwed my self.  I am a big fan of SanDisk and Samsung SS drives.  I ended up ordering this one on Amazon:   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07621PNWC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1   And I ordered this adapter you posted a...

OK.  I understand now.  I went to OWC and searched under Power Mac G3 Blue and White.  I was looking for a battery and a SS drive.  I was going to buy a 128GB SS drive, but they were out.  They had two more listed under the Blue & White upgrage page.  The smallest one was the 250GB drive. ...

Could I format the SS drive I have on order into three partitions of about 83 GBs each? Can I do this with Mac format software, or would I need to move to a third party format utility? I used Lido to partition the CF card I used as a hard drive in my Color Classic. I am still unsure how to...

Nglevin....   Point well taken re making floppies from USB 1.1 speeds vs USB 2.0 speeds.   RE your post to this enclosure:   ************************ I tend to suggest FireWire 400 for OS 8.6/9.x since it comes close to USB 2 transfer speeds and you can find some HD enclosures that support it...

All....   Looking around this morning, I see PCI USB 2.0 cards revert back to USB 1.1 under a classic OS.  They only give USB speeds of USB 2.0 if running under OSX.  I was thinking about the faster speeds I would get from a external USB floppy drive.  I may still add a PCI USB 2.0 card in any...

Hello....   I am looking for a link to a web site that I can use to tell the revision number of the motherboard in my Blue & White G3.  I saw a vendor selling updated V 2 motherboards for the B&W G3.   The first B&W G3 to ship in Jan 1999 was model number M6665LL/.  A second group of...

Folks... The only reason I bought this B&W G3 was to support my Color Classic Mystic.  If I can run a browser faster in this G3 than I can in my Color Classic, do I have any reason to move to a early version of OSX?  I wanted to surf MacintoshGarden and many other web sites.   If I do...

Ah!  OK, looking at the photo in that ebay link explained a lot.  I understand it now. Thank you. mraroid

Ah, OK.  Was this stock?  My first experene seeing chips sticking out from under a CPU heat sink. mraroid

Apologies to all.  Yes, after not much sleep, I posted to the wrong forum thread.  I tried to delete it but could not figure out how in my almost 20 hours of no sleep stupor.  I will be more careful in the future.  Drinking that second cup of coffee now.    So sorry.   mraroid

I just noticed something odd sticking out from under the heat sink of the CPU.  Is this normal?  See the enclosed photo. Thanks mraroid

I just noticed something odd sticking out from under the heat sink of the CPU on the right hand side.  Is this normal?  See the enclosed photo. Thanks mraroid

OK.  Thank you.  I will go for that one.  I do have a 9.2 (but not a 9.22) CD someplace.... Would that also work? mraroid

I have one, just to lazy to get it out just now (cold winter). Thanks!  I will buy it.

Thanks for the good feedback and help.   I did a clean install to one of the two mechanical old hard drives in this Mac.  It booted just fine after that.  I did a disk verify and it all looked good.  The CD I have (it is not the correct one) installed 8.5.1.   After having the computer on for a...

I removed the assembly and the fan.   It was quite dirty.  It would spin just fine by hand.  The movement seemed OK.  I cleaned it and sprayed some contact cleaner in the inter fan assembly and then some can compressed air.  Air dried and re assembled.  When I first boot, the fan runs for about...

Hello.... For the most part, the most modern Mac I have ever owned was a Color Classic.  I made the 640 X 480 Mystic mod.  I was looking for a support Mac to help me with my CC.  I ended up buying a very dirty Power Macintosh G3 400 (Blue & White) on Craig's List for $50.00. My B&W is a...

I ended up buying the B&W G3 for $50.00.  I took it home and opened it up outside my house.  It is the most dirty computer I have ever seen.  I used 3 cans of compressed air just get the top layer of dirt and dust off.  It needs a top to bottom cleaning.    I have enclosed a photo.  It show...