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Platinum G3 mobo upgrade?
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bojangles
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Jul 4, 2002, 02:43 PM
 
I have two beige G3�s: a tower and an AIO. The AIO was free, cuz it�s dead. The power supply seems to be bad, and the mobo is definitely pushing up daisies. No chime, no screen, nada. (The fan died, and when the teachers that used it didn�t notice, everything else fried.)

Anywho, the point is that the AIO�s mobo, despite being completely and (presumably) irreversibly dead, has some neat stuff that the tower does not. I�ve already pillaged it for the rev.B ROM, but that Rage Pro is pretty darned tempting. Furthermore, when the tower started having boot problems (still working on that), I removed everything in there (including the mobo itself) searching for the culprit and wound up snapping off those little plastic pieces that hold the 4MB SGRAM upgrade in place. (Oops.) As such, that piece is looking mighty tempting, too.

So... any suggestions on how to get stuff off of one mobo and onto another? I don�t really care about the busted one, but the tower�s basically works, so while I do want those features, I really don�t want to risk killing that one.... <img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" />
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Jul 10, 2002, 04:14 AM
 
Unless you have a fallback computer, I wouldn't play around too much with the towers motherboard. Would suck to fry it and have no computer at all. On the other hand, maybe this could be a good excuse to get a newer computer.
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