Older iMac G3 Blue

I bought a iMac 400 MHz Power PC G3 256 MB SDRAM from a Yard Sale. It wasn't working but I bought OS X Panther from eBay and got it working today WOOT! I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to maybe fix the screen? It's a bit blurry. I also wanted to know if anyone knew about what type of memory it needed, it's a bit slow and I wanted to speed it up a bit. Any ideas there?

I bought a FastMac G Processor Upgrade for G3 Power Macs, I think I got jyped though becuase I think the chip I got was the old one. I'll take a picture of it if anyone know anything about them. Anyway ... I asked a few questions here. Thanks for the help!

This is an iMac with the built in monitor correct? What color is the case?

Edit, This is a DV and 400Mhz.

http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/dv.shtml

All the 400 Mhz G3 iMacs seem to take PC100 SDRAM (Not SoDimm like the older Tray Loaders did). They will take 1GB total and each slot takes a 512MB PC100 SDRAM stick.

Well here is a link to my iMac.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v330/speXedy/?action=view&current=DSC_0001.jpg

Where is the cheepest place to get that memory?

Anything else I should know?

http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/400.shtml


Pretty sure that is your machine. Try NewEgg. The RAM specs are in that url.

Welcome to Mac-Forums, Think Different.

Since Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther runs on it, I guess you did install the Firmware Update on it, yes? Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to install at all.

And a grape iMac! Wow! I had one of those but the 266MHz one (previous generation).

MacHeadCase said:

Welcome to Mac-Forums, Think Different.

Since Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther runs on it, I guess you did install the Firmware Update on it, yes? Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to install at all.

And a grape iMac! Wow! I had one of those but the 266MHz one (previous generation).

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I still have an old Grape 333Mhz G3. Runs Panther pretty well.

I had to give mine up within a year of owning it (I had bought it second-hand from a friend), the analog board went belly up and it would have cost me over $400CAN plus labour plus roughly 15% tax. We thought it wasn't worth it and bought a brand new 17" 800MHz G4 iMac instead of getting the other repaired.

MacHeadCase said:

I had to give mine up within a year of owning it (I had bought it second-hand from a friend), the analog board went belly up and it would have cost me over $400CAN plus labour plus roughly 15% tax. We thought it wasn't worth it and bought a brand new 17" 800MHz G4 iMac instead of getting the other repaired.

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My board died but it was the Flyback (Horizontal Output) Transformer. I got one on Ebay and fixed it. Brand new for $30. I used to be a TV/Monitor repair person at one time so the repair was easy. It works good as new. Those boards are quite expensive!!

dtravis7 said:

This is an iMac with the built in monitor correct?

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All iMacs have built in monitors...

smurfy said:

All iMacs have built in monitors...

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I was JUST BEING SURE he did not have a Blue and White G3. I very well know what an iMac is. When you help people it's good to be sure exactly what they own. Remember there are people here who say they are running 10.5 and call an intel Mac a G5.

dtravis7 said:

I was JUST BEING SURE he did not have a Blue and White G3. I very well know what an iMac is. When you help people it's good to be sure exactly what they own. Remember there are people here who say they are running 10.5 and call an intel Mac a G5.

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Good

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