Found this first Gen Apple LCD display for cheap. Anyone have one?

[sunvalleylaw]

The ATI Rage from a Blue&White G3 is a decent upgrade for any beige G3, much faster than onboard and super cheap. The beige G3 SGRAM is harder to find these days.

You can pilfer one from a Rev. B to D trayloader iMac, or from contemporary (to the Beige G3) ATI graphics cards. But often easier to get a Rage 128, as you say.

Actually, as it turns out, the seller had installed an ATI card from a later G3 tower. Not sure if it is the rage model or not and sorry if that is totally newbie, but I just am still learning the difference between things again. But it does have one in there.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Cool. What’s the Tracking button do?



Oh dear, could it be needing a recap?



Definitely worth it.

Yeah, I bet it could be needing a recap. And I’m not sure what powers the backlight or controls that. I’m really starting at Ground Zero here as I want to get more into repairing old electronics, including these computers, and also old solid state and tube audio equipment. Going to check in at the Reuseum store and stem class facility here in Boise as they tend to regularly offer soldering and electronics classes.

Also, I will be surfing around here and elsewhere for getting started guides on some of this stuff so as to try to limit my dumb questions.

 

[croissantking]

Actually, as it turns out, the seller had installed an ATI card from a later G3 tower. Not sure if it is the rage model or not and sorry if that is totally newbie, but I just am still learning the difference between things again. But it does have one in there.

Grab a photo

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Grab a photo

Yeah, I’ll try to find time to open it up later

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Here is what the tracking button pulls up. I messed with it yesterday and the course adjust seems to smooth out lines in the display in a course way and the fine adjust just fine tunes that. To make the screen image appear smooth as it says.

 

[croissantking]

Yeah, I’ll try to find time to open it up later

You could also just see what Apple System Profiler says…

Here is what the tracking button pulls up. I messed with it yesterday and the course adjust seems to smooth out lines in the display in a course way and the fine adjust just fine tunes that. To make the screen image appear smooth as it says.

Ok, interesting. Those old VGA LCDs needed a lot of fine tuning.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Also started messing around in the appearance controls and found a background I like better. Bring on the flower power.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

You could also just see what Apple System Profiler says…



Ok, interesting. Those old VGA LCDs needed a lot of fine tuning.

OK, another “duh” moment.



Sure, enough, ATI Rage 128!!

 

[croissantking]

OK, another “duh” moment.

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Sure, enough, ATI Rage 128!!

Great. You’ll just need an adapter to get that working.

What’s in slot A1?

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Great. You’ll just need an adapter to get that working.

What’s in slot A1?

Don’t know yet other than what it says there on the system profiler which says something about a PCI bridge. I sent a message to the seller to see if he knows anything.

 

[obsolete]

PCI Vendor 1668 is Actiontec, whose bridge chip comes up in reference to the Sonnet Tempo Trio card. If that's what you have, very nice score.

Don’t know yet other than what it says there on the system profiler which says something about a PCI bridge. I sent a message to the seller to see if he knows anything.

You could open the case and look.

Edit: I think the reference to the Sonnet Tempo Trio I found in this thread may be a red herring. Actiontec makes wifi hardware. My bet is that this is a wifi card.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

PCI Vendor 1668 is Actiontec, whose bridge chip comes up in reference to the Sonnet Tempo Trio card. If that's what you have, very nice score.

You could open the case and look.

Edit: I think the reference to the Sonnet Tempo Trio I found in this thread may be a red herring. Actiontec makes wifi hardware. My bet is that this is a wifi card.

The seller replied to me and indicated it is a USB and fire wire card that only works properly with OS 10.3+ which is too slow on this machine in his opinion.

 

[croissantking]

The seller replied to me and indicated it is a USB and fire wire card that only works properly with OS 10.3+ which is too slow on this machine in his opinion.

Yeah that makes sense. Grab a photo later if you can and we’ll be able to identify it properly. 10.3/10.4 work well if you have upgrades (fast CPU, graphics, HDD and lots of ram).