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I already tried 2 different beige G3 boards… so it’s not that… Nor is it the compatibility cards… Very intriguing.

Works correctly on a B/W G3 with Mac OS 8.5.1 and v1.6.4 drivers.

I have a B&W G3 I can try it in. I'll load up 8.5 and see. Are you using PC Setup 2.1.7 on both machines? BTW I have two of these cards that are doing the same thing, which points away from it being a problem with either of the cards themselves (although it is possible).

Indeed, though physical space is of course an ever-growing concern... If anyone is successfully using one of these cards in a Beige G3, I'd be interested to know about it.

And what if said collection does not have a 7.6.1-capable PCI PowerMac? 😂 I guess I'm outta luck.

File copies in DOS are being heavily corrupted, as revealed with the fc (file compare) command. It applies equally to CD-ROM to HD, HD to HD, floppy to HD and floppy to floppy transfers. I'll try to set up a RAM disk on the PC side and see if copies work there.

I tried the Win3.1 image and to my surprise it mostly works. First boot into Win3.1 worked great but from the second attempt onwards it said that the accessories group had become missing or damaged. Seems like data corruption. Otherwise feels stable. All of the dosbench benchmarks work great...

I did try the Win98 image, that’s the one that BSOD’ed.

8.0 is the lowest you can go on a Beige G3, unfortunately. Tried it, it went through all the found new hardware dialogs and then BSOD’ed. There’s something else going on here. I’m not sure how it can be a fault with the cards as they’re both behaving the same way even after I recapped one of...

Thanks very much for contributing these. I have three 12” compatibility cards in my hands at the moment (they’re not mine, I’m troubleshooting them). Two of them were failed but I already fixed one after noticing an inductor had broken off the board. So now I can’t get either of the two working...

Don't take it personal. Maybe they rejected everyone lol

I think I left some open while I was testing on my initial bake.

I guess you did not get the memo lol. It’s better to bake the display complete with PCB. Remove backlight tube, diffuser and desolder flex connector.

You’ll probably want to use a bit of filler on that and respray the whole case. Not sure about colour matching…

I wanted to share this layout for a brand new PCB that I've created. It is intended to fit perfectly inside the Delta power supply housing that's common to the Quadra 800, 840AV and Power Macintosh 8100. These PSUs are failure-prone and notoriously difficult to repair, so I was keen to come...

I desoldered the Mac floppy port and fitted a PC floppy port onto my Beige G3. However I can't get a PC drive to work – it's not detected and doesn't do anything.

Interested to know your thinking but the Beige G3 is unequivocally Old World in my book.

While a missing battery can prevent boot, it shouldn’t cause Sad Mac tones. And you say you’ve tried the on/off/on trick so it’ll be something else (bad RAM, maybe?)

No because the 28 pin chips are 8bit wide so you need a set of four on a 32-bit bus. The 42 pin chips are 16 bit wide each, so you only need two of them. They *could* have used four 42 pin chips in the 8MB configuration, spread across two banks, but there wasn't enough space on the backside of...