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PC Compatibility Card Setup

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G3-Pwnz-G4

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I have recently purchased an old PC Compatibility Card off of ebay, and am having a bit of trouble getting it setup. i've put it into a Beige G3 DT 266, and i've installed 1.6.1 PC setup software, setup a 1024mb PC HD, etc, and it says it's fine and all that, but when i try and switch over to the PC it just dims the screen and nothing happens. i saw what looked like a monitor out plug on the back with the typical apple monitor symbol, but it had 3 rows of pins, and to my knowledge apple monitors have always had 2 rows of pins (at least all of mine do).

Any help on why it's not working for me would be greatly appreciated.
 
applemacdude

applemacdude

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Mar 26, 2001
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G3-Pwnz-G4 said:
I have recently purchased an old PC Compatibility Card off of ebay, and am having a bit of trouble getting it setup. i've put it into a Beige G3 DT 266, and i've installed 1.6.1 PC setup software, setup a 1024mb PC HD, etc, and it says it's fine and all that, but when i try and switch over to the PC it just dims the screen and nothing happens. i saw what looked like a monitor out plug on the back with the typical apple monitor symbol, but it had 3 rows of pins, and to my knowledge apple monitors have always had 2 rows of pins (at least all of mine do).

Any help on why it's not working for me would be greatly appreciated.
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yea u have to have 2 monitor, its a vga port, i know i have one of those orange micro cards
 
Sun Baked

Sun Baked

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May 19, 2002
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Some of those cards require a funky cable to hook up the monitor...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=33001

33001_9.gif


Which plugs into the cards video port, the computer video port, and then the monitor.
 
G

G3-Pwnz-G4

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applemacdude said:
yea u have to have 2 monitor, its a vga port, i know i have one of those orange micro cards
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lol, c'mon...give me some credit here. it's not a VGA port, trust me.

Thanks sun baked, that's what i needed to know :)
 
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