Q: Connecting a current LED screen to an old BW G3
Hi. I'd like to connect my trusty old Blue and White G3 to my new HP Pavillion IPS LED Backlit screen. It has VGA and dual HDMI ports (with HDCP support). Pretty sure I need to change out the video card and find the appropriate cables -any suggestions? If also like to make this wifi operational, but not sure which hardware is best to install. If there's anything else I've missed, pls let me know. Thanx so much!!!
PowerMac, iOS 8.4.1
Posted on Sep 11, 2015 3:26 PM
If it hasn't been replaced in the past, your B&W G3's graphics card is an ATI Rage 128 PCI graphics card, having just a VGA port. If you're going to continue using the B&W, you might want to buy a slightly better graphics card that has an HDMI port so you can take advantage of the digital clarity. You can only use a PCI (not AGP or PCI-e) graphics card (all now discontinued) that was factory-programmed and marketed for use in older Macs or an equivalent PC graphics card that has successfully been re-programmed for use in Macs. For $18 (USD), here's an ebay listing for the same card that I have in my B&W G3. The ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition is a decent card with 32 MBs of DDRAM and a good upgrade from the existing Rage 128 with 16 MBs of SGRAM.
Posted on Sep 12, 2015 2:15 AM