[DM-MUG] B/W G3 monitor

[AB]

any CRT monitor should work. I had a KDS monitor hooked up to my old G3, and then I switched to an apple CRT. You could even hook up an LCD with a HDMI to VGA adapter. 

Sometimes the cabling needs wiggled, so that might do the trick. 

Just try a different monitor with the G3. If the same result appears, then you need a new video card. I think G3s take AGP or PCI. You can just remove the video card and take it to the store if you're unsure. AGP is the longest and brown colored. PCI is shorter and white colored. PCI is the shortest and only became more common in systems manufactured beyond 2005/2006. Definitely NOT PCI express. 

Then try hooking up the monitor to a different computer to determine if it's a bad monitor or video card issue. If the monitor is bad, you can donate it to this computer place behind (on the back side) Friedrichs Coffee and Hyvee on 42nd Street in Des Moines. They take used hardware and refurbish it and resell it. 

-A.

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, Jon Thompson <jthompson-lists at dmevolve.com> wrote:

From: Jon Thompson <jthompson-lists at dmevolve.com>
Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] B/W G3 monitor
To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 8:13 AM

Did you ever figure this out?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:

Thanks for the idea. If I have a monitor which will work with it we

can find out fast.



Ray

On Oct 31, 2009, at Oct 31, 200912:04 PM, Jon Thompson wrote:



>

> I wouldn't be so quick to call it the monitor. If it has lost just

> red, it could be the video card, or the cabling for the monitor.

>

> On Oct 31, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:

>

> > My son-in-law has a B/W G3 which lost power recently. When it

> > eventually powered back up he had lost the red in the display. This

> > sounds like he needs a different monitor. Is it possible to find

> these

> > B/W monitors? The tech specs say  it uses a 15-pin mini D-Sub VGA

> > connector and Macintosh-to-VGA adapter. I have several monitors I

> > could let him try so what should we look at in the connector?

> >

> > Thanks.

> >

> > Ray Bowler

> >

> > rbowler.home.mchsi.com

> >

> 





Ray Bowler



rbowler.home.mchsi.com


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