Power Mac G3 With Tiger

My Beige Power Mac G3 is now running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11! With the help of Xpostfacto 4, I was able to install the OS even though there's no Firewire or USB ports present. The G3 runs flawlessly and software updates had no issues.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Power
• Mac
• G3
• Apple
• OS
• Tiger
• 10.4.11
• Beige
• Desktop
• Xpostfacto4
• Sonnet
• G4
• Upgrade

[DonkeyTech2]

can you watch youtube videos on it?

[MacinStitch]

@DonkeyTech2 Don't know. Haven't tested it yet. I'll see if it can and I'll show it in a new video.

[DanMan91693]

which zif upgrade card did you use?

[MacinStitch]

@DanMan91693 Sonnet Encore G4 ZIF Upgrade. Works with Beige and B&W G3's. Beige G3 will run at 733MHz with 66MHz Bus. B&W G3 will run at 1 GHz on 100MHz Bus.

[kollardavidkolibry]

@MacinStitch ~2 weeks ago i got my first Apple product - Beige Power Mac G3.. Am i still able to buy that ZIF Upgrade thingy? And how difficult is it to put together? Im pretty familiar with PCs but im totally new to Macs.

[MacinStitch]

@kollardavidkolibry Before we begin, congrats on your first Apple product! As for availability on the ZIF CPU upgrade, Sonnet no longer carries them anymore, BUT there are some on eBay. Start looking there. Let me send you some more info in a PM ok.

[MacinStitch]

@valiant1968 Logic board is stock except for the Voltage Regulator being changed to support CPU upgrades. The CPU is a Sonnet Encore ZIF G4 upgrade. It can work in both the Beige and B&W G3. To get the G4 in the machine is relatively simple. Replace the old G3 with the upgrade G4, connect the extra power cable to the G4 to the Main power to the logic board via splice power cable, install the software, done. I may do another video of the internal components operating.

[MacinStitch]

@snowleopard448 Yup.

[snowleopard448]

The power ad G3 startup chime is still the best ever IMO.

[valiant1968]

See, by the video description, one would THINK you were actually running Tiger through a G3 processor - which is rare. Running it on a G4 processor is pretty normal. Did you have to change the motherboard at all? I have a stock beige G3 desktop - with a PCI USB card, 512MB RAM, 3 hard drives, and the graphics card and 350MHz processor (overclocked to 400MHz) out of a B&W G3 tower. Please tell me how you got a 733MHz G4 in there!