Talk:Power Macintosh G3

The Beige G3 series
The Revision A Beige G3 used an ATi Rage IIc+ video chip and the ROM only supported one IDe device per port. Swapping the ROM SIMM for a Revision B or Revision C corrects that, but doesn't improve anything else.

The Revision B and C used the same motherboard, with some slight variations in some of the chips, but they're functionally identical and both use the ATi Rage Pro video chip.

Installing OSX 10.1.5 on a Revision A will allow two IDE devices per port with the original ROM, but video performance is still poor due to the older video chip.

OSX 10.1.5 has a good video driver for the Rage Pro video chip and is overall quite a bit faster on the B and C versions than 10.1.

All versions of the Beige G3 may have odd hardware issues with OSX where the mouse may not work or the built in ethernet may be disabled. Some posts on many usenet groups and other internet forums say it's taken three or more reinstalls of OSX to get the built in hardware all working, while others report a perfect install the first time.

The newest officially supported OSX version on these computers is 10.2.8. 10.3.x and 10.4.x may be installed using a utility called "XPostFacto".