FOR SALE: Beige G3 minitower MAXED OUT!

[shake]

don't kow if anyone is interested, but i'm selling my trusty G3 tower (beige). specs are as follows....

500mHz G3 processor with 1mb L2 cache
512 MB RAM
USB/FireWire card
CD-ROM (original)
CD-RW (teac 8x4x32) internal-bootable
A/V personality card (video capture)
56k modem
DDS2 tape drive for backup-internal
4gig Hard Drive (original)
Apple 17" Monitor
for all of the techies out there, the motherboard is the latest one they produced, with the ATI Rage Pro chipset (6mb VRAM)
ROM Dimm is RevD (latest), and the motherboard has been set to 83mhz.

evertything runs perfect, and have never had a problem. osX has never crashed wither (i have had it running for months with no rebotts or restarts)
i would also like to include a Umax scsi scanner to the deal.

if anyone is interested, please send me an email.
shake@mac.com

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by shake
A/V personality card (video capture)
shake@mac.com

A lot of good that card does in OSX, eh?

Good luck selling it! I've got a maxed beige tower myself and I'm working on running it into the ground, though I haven't been as fortunate as you when it comes to problems with it in OSX.

Do you have another Mac or are you planning on buying one? Waiting for the 970s?

- j

[shake]

i actually have a chance to get a clean dual 533 g4, and for my needs, it's the perfect machine (with a readeon 8500 and dual channel ata133 card!) i do mostly pro audio work and some software development (i am a comp science student)
yeah, too bad about the A/V card in X... it actually is a great quality capture card.
i would love to get a PPC970, but who knows when it's coming out (i doubt it's coming at WWDC), and it will take anopther 2 years (or more) for apps to come out that support 64 bits. (even though it should run 32 bit apps with no emulation).
D

[applemacdude]

isnt the latest video chip inside the beige mt the rage pro turbo...

[daveg5]

biege g3 minitower
av ports great for watching cable, video capture without skips or frame drops (like usb capture cards), or hooking to tv to watch trailers or video tape.

dual monitor out the box in os 9.2.2 ( i will be checking out some software soon that might get the av to work, it has gone only two months without a crash in 9.2.2, about 1 month without a kernal panic in os 10.2.6. i ususally get one when i update the system software and that usb bug.

625 MHZ 7410 g4 1 MB L2 cache
768MB pc100 memory
radeon 7000 32 MB B.I. 6MB VRAM. thats 4 monitors in os9 3 in osx
ata 100 pci card and WD800JB 80GB
Pioneer DVD player Slot Load
Plextor 40-12-40A cdrw
pro rca audio jacks in / out
Pro sound card
tons of music apps, mostly os9 only and cubase sl/sx for osx
actually runs pretty good in OSX, great in OS9 dvd in both tv out in both.
I say keep yours for a second cpu or sale the parts seperately if possible.
Maybe you can put some in your 970

[daveg5]

Originally posted by jayscheuerle
A lot of good that card does in OSX, eh?

Good luck selling it! I've got a maxed beige tower myself and I'm working on running it into the ground, though I haven't been as fortunate as you when it comes to problems with it in OSX.

Do you have another Mac or are you planning on buying one? Waiting for the 970s?

- j what problems are you having with OSX. if its installing, make sure you have less then 256MB in the machine you may have to switch ram slots, If your machine is upgraded you may havt to disable the cache or even pput the original processor back in. it is docmented that the biege g3 has trouble sometimes with upgrades over 500MHZ.
And if all else fells, apple has what they call System disk utility, which is available for download and must be used instead of system startup disk to get you back into OSX from 9.2.2

[wsteineker]

Yo Shake, how much for the machine without the monitor and the video capture card? I'm looking for a beige G3 to serve as a Yellow Dog Linux file server for my home, and this thing sounds just about right.

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by daveg5
what problems are you having with OSX. if its installing, make sure you have less then 256MB in the machine you may have to switch ram slots, If your machine is upgraded you may havt to disable the cache or even pput the original processor back in. it is docmented that the biege g3 has trouble sometimes with upgrades over 500MHZ.
And if all else fells, apple has what they call System disk utility, which is available for download and must be used instead of system startup disk to get you back into OSX from 9.2.2

It just locks up more than it should and often cannot find the system when restarting from one of these lock-ups. Sometimes it can't find the disks and I'll have to run Disk Warrior (if it finds the disk). Sometimes it can take a dozen restarts and 2 hours worth of disconnecting devices (mostly intenal) before everything was back to where it was.

I've got 512 megs or RAM in a jumper-bumped 400 with loaded internals (2 drives, CD-ROM, CD-RW & Zip). I've tried reconfiguring the internals (who goes on what bus, etc.), but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I've been troubleshooting these things since the PowerPCs came out and this one just stymies me. When it works, like now, it's fine, but when it crashes, it crashes hard. Perhaps I should run Cocktail on it every day or restart it more often. As it is now, it's on 24/7 used mainly as a jukebox tied to our stereo with 6834 songs, 19.4 days, 30.91 GB on it. I hate the silence when the system goes down. It's much better to troubleshoot with music playing!

I've had OSX in this box since the public beta, useless as it was, and am hoping that Panther's more stable for my machine. I just wish there was some utility out there that would tell me if the configuration of my internal devices is inherently unstable.

If only it would completely die on me... then I could get something newer!

- j

[applemacdude]

did u sell it?