Hi Apple Friends. I am new to the Forum and hoping for some help that I can't seem to find anywhere! I really, really want to save my Beige Desktop G3 that I've kept all these years - I love this machine - but the monitor has stopped working.
Actually, the monitor is fine... I tested it on my MacBook Pro. I have had it plugged into the original input port on the G3, using the Viewsonic adaptor (and its 2nd backup, both with the original switch settings), having to jiggle it more and more recently to get the picture to stay on. Then - nothing.
So.... I just bought a Mac-ready ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 64mb video card off of ebay. I installed it and.... nothing. No image... black screen. I removed the other pci card I had... a USB card. Still nothing. I tried it in all 3 pci slots. Nothing.
The person I bought it from is not being very helpful other than to say he will send me another card.
Is there something wrong with my motherboard????
Can someone PLEASE help? I do not have another desktop machine to test with, only 2 Mac laptops.
Cheers.
Actually, the monitor is fine... I tested it on my MacBook Pro. I have had it plugged into the original input port on the G3, using the Viewsonic adaptor (and its 2nd backup, both with the original switch settings), having to jiggle it more and more recently to get the picture to stay on. Then - nothing.
So.... I just bought a Mac-ready ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 64mb video card off of ebay. I installed it and.... nothing. No image... black screen. I removed the other pci card I had... a USB card. Still nothing. I tried it in all 3 pci slots. Nothing.
The person I bought it from is not being very helpful other than to say he will send me another card.
Is there something wrong with my motherboard????
Can someone PLEASE help? I do not have another desktop machine to test with, only 2 Mac laptops.
Cheers.