Adding a PCI Video Card to an Apple Macintosh G3 AIO
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1. 10 3 some times OS 9 x i use 2 monitors one is hooked to the 7000 and the internal is still hooked to the onboard i use to want to do this mod but i liked having extended desktop mode the internal monitor used for the IRC chat client and the 7000 used for everything else since its way faster but i always thought this was a great mod to do if you dont want another monitor Specs of my AIO Beige G3 AIO Rev b rom Rav 2 mobo G3 466mhz bought a G3 450mhz cpu from a B amp W 448mb ram Western Digital SE 120gb HDD Pioneer DVR 110D internal zip 100 internal comm slot II 56k v90 modem 1 2 port USB 1 1 PCI card ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI video card ATI Rage Pro onboard video 6mb vram 2mb stock vram 4mb vram sodimm upgrade 15 external monitor hooked to the Radeon 7000 OS 9 2 2 and OS X 10 4 8 with PCI Extreme enabled and running great with hardly any ill effects have burn support with the Pioneer drive in OS 9 2 2 with iTunes and finder burning with a modded PioneerCDR Authoring support extension modded that file to also support the 111D drives installed intech CD DVD speed tools 6 0 to fix the wake up freeze caused by the stocl apple cd dvd driver with the Pioneer DVR 110D January 21st 2007 Frank says i have PCI Extreme enabled on my AIO and im useing a ATI Radeon 7000 PCI video card and the onboard video yea the onboard video wont support PCI extreme but the 7000 does and works great have had no problems2. Notes e On your first boot after the mod make sure you have a monitor of some sort connected to the on board video port via mac VGA connector in the rear You ll have to boot up on the onboard video first and then specify that you want your new PCI video card to be primary in the Display Control Panel As of yet I have not been able to figure out how to truly disable the onboard video Even with the internal monitor connected to your newly installed video card Apple System Profiler still sees the on board video as enabled and connected to a ghost monitor What this means is you need to either have video mirroring turned on makes the system slow as hell or you need to make your new video card the primary display in the Displays Control Panel and have a ghost secondary monitor exist on your system Your mouse could get lost over there If you disconnect the AIO ribbon cable from the Personality card then the on board video becomes disabled This leads me to believe that there are some kind of monitor sense lines on that cable which could be disconnected Please play around and let me know what you find Unfortunately you can t just leave it disconnected as it also has the speaker volume controls and brightness controls coming through it Since the on board video is always enabled I cannot get Quartz Extreme to work with that patch I see floating around click here for details PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN DISABLE
3. THE ONBOARD VIDEO If you know someone at ATI with the chip datasheets or something Still want to do this mod yourself Thanks to an awesome reader Donnie I made 5 pre manufactured solderless solutions already tested and ready to go So far I have 4 left Interested Click here Posted by crzyshane 8 Comments 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card _http web archive org web 20070529 132408 http www shanecurd 7 of 10 1 Mike mcManus says Wow Good job Have you had any problems with the mod How do you get the G3 aio Servce manual It is not on thaat site anymore Going to try this Going to put a faster cpu in Will it have any effect on the mod November I Ith 2006 Martin Graiter says Hi Great site and great articles As for disabling the internal graphics card if you can find a pinout of the graphics chip probably some ATI chip then look for a pin named CE a d This stands for Chip Enable and is usually negative logic When you feed it with a constant 5V it will be disabled You also need to disconnect this CE input from its normal source so that the source isn t force fed with the same logical 1 I m speculating now but I m sure that when the bus master hardware gets no feedback from the built in graphics processor it will assume it to be not present If I could find a source for ATI graphics controller pinouts I d gladly
4. test this on one of my own Macs I m 90 sure that this will work though Regards Martin Sweden December 2nd 2006 DrBunsen says I don t think it s such a good idea to do the wiring mod while the other end is plugged into your brand new Radeon You want to triple check the wire assignments before powering up And that big loop of video cable inside the computer is going to act like a coil and pick up interference Better to make the cable shorter That said well done January 3rd 2007 Morgan says I am making a modification using a motherboardless AIO I am going to try to do the same thing but I was wondering if there is anything that i need to hardwire to make the monitor come on or does it just activate with the powersupply January 9th 2007 Frank M says hello i sent you a few emails before but never got a reply from you i have tiger 10 4 8 installed and i have a Radeon 7000 ME PCI installed in my AIO and have PCI extreme installed and it runs on the 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card _http web archive org web 20070529 132408 http www shanecurd 8 of 10 Radeon 7000 just fine with extreme cheacker it shows as active and the onboard video as not supported i used PCI extreme 3 1 from xlr8yourmac com to get it working i have had tiger installed since 10 4 3 and have not had a single problem with tiger runs better than 10 2 or
5. CI Video Card _http web archive org web 20070529 132408 http www shanecurd Step 4 Now you ll need to prepare the 5 BNC Connector VGA cable you purchased By preparing of course I mean you need to take your wire cutters and chop off each BNC connector Strip about 2 inches of the outer insulation off of each wire and you ll see another wire inside surrounded by a metal shielding Pull the metal shielding away from the inner wire and gather Once you have it all gathered twist and apply solder This will be ground for each color The shielding on the V Sync and H Sync wires will not be used Now Strip a small amount of insulation from each inner wire and apply solder to each lead Step 5 Here s a handy table showing the pinout of a standard VGA cable You ll need this and a multimeter to continue i Pin 8 Blue in 1 Red ns 5 10 Ground rouna Pin 2 Green Pin 6 Red Ground Pin 13 7 Horizontal Sync Pin 7 Green Pin 14 Vertical Pn T Bhue Ground Syne Now that you ve prepared the VGA cable as instructed above you need to identify which wire goes where For this you use a multimeter set to Ohms Touch one test lead from the multimeter to one of the 15 pins of the VGA cable as shown above and touch the other lead to one of the stripped and solder coated wires you have on the other end of the VGA cable You need to identify Red Red Ground Green Green Ground Blue Blue Ground Vertical Sync and f
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7. The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card _http web archive org web 20070529 132408 http www shanecurd 1 of 10 The mis Adventures of Shane Curd HomeBioPhotosTravelsProjectsResumeContact Login Rss Adding a PCI Video Card to an Apple Macintosh G3 AIO September 26th 2006 Details If you have a G3 AIO I think one of your biggest complaints will be the video It has a slow 2 MB Rage Pro or Rage IIc onboard video controller and since the CRT is integrated you cannot simply install a PCI video card With the help of my scientist father and his new Tektronix scope we figured out how to wire in a new video card to utilize the integrated CRT I can assure you that I have made this modification to my AIO and am THRILLED with the performance increase The upgrade I try to outline below will result in excellent 3D performance even flawless DVD playback One day someone will get Quartz Extreme to work let me know if you do If you d like to perform the same upgrade on your AIO please see the almost walkthrough below It s a work in progress and I welcome your feedback What to Buy and Required Tools 1 A completely tested pre manufactured solderless solution I ve already made Click here for more information and to place your order 2 Tools Screwdriver to open your AIO case 3 A new ATI Radeon PCI Card for Macintosh Computers As of 9 06 92 try here Or 1 A VGA cable
8. for a monitor with BNC connections You need one of these cables with 5 leads Red Blue Green H Sync and V Sync 2 Some connectors of various kinds see below 3 Some spare wire electrical tape heat shrink tubing zip ties 4 Tools Screwdriver soldering iron solder solder wick precise wire cutters heat gun multimeter 5 Lots of patience 6 A new ATI Radeon PCI Card for Macintosh Computers As of 9 06 92 try here Useful Software Documentation Note I do not host this software or documentation I link to other sites where I ve found someone who has posted them If the links below don t work please use the Contact button above and write me an e mail and maybe I can point you in the right direction Click here to get to download the Apple Factory Service Manual for the G3 AIO 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card _ http web archive org web 20070529 132408 http www shanecurd Click here to get the Apple Display Adjustment Utility for the G3 AIO OS 9 Only Almost Walkthrough So the reason I call this an Almost Walkthrough is because there is more narrative here than photos True walkthroughs are loaded with dozens of high res digital photos some with fancy red arrows pointing to specific things Unfortunately this isn t one of those guides If you get into trouble feel free to e mail me Contact button up above and I will do my best to help yo
9. inally Horizontal Sync Once you identify which wire goes where label the wire or take notes for later Step 6 Connect the VGA cable to your new ATI Radeon Mac PCI video card and feed the wiring through the gap in the Personality Card as shown below 3 of 10 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card 4 of 10 http web archive org web 20070529 132408 http www shanecurd Step 7 Now onto the inside wiring Free up the 40 pin ribbon cable looks like an IDE cable that normally plugs into the top of the Personality Card Count in from the side opposite of the red stripe to wire number 12 and 14 Cut both of those and attach a piece of scrap wire to each lead because they are too weak otherwise Wire number 12 yellow wire in the photo below is Horizontal Sync and wire number 14 is Vertical Sync brown wire in the photo below You ll want to put some kind of connector on each wire for removal so your VGA mod isn t hardwired T T z 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card http web archive org web 20070529132408 http www shanecurd 5 of 10 In Step 5 above you should have identified which wire from the VGA cable you hacked up goes to Vertical Sync and which goes to Horizontal Sync Put a corresponding connector on each of those two wires so that they can plug int
10. o your ribbon cable s connectors as above Note For these two wires ONLY you do not need the shielding and can remove and discard The shielding around Red Green and Blue act as Ground which is required to be connected Step 8 In Step 5 above you should have identified which wires in your VGA cable are Red Red Ground Green Green Ground and Blue Blue ground I used connectors like you see below I soldered Red Green and Blue to one connector and Red Ground Green Ground and Blue Ground to the other connector I used heat shrink tubing and electrical tape to protect against shorts Make sure you solder the wires to the connector in such a way that the pins will align to the correct position within the AIO video cable as shown below Notice that four holes on the AIO video cable are unused I covered them with electrical tape to prevent confusion should I disconnect the wires in the future GREEN Ami oO COTE 4 Grand ATO Vroco CAaGLE Below is the finished product I used a bunch of electrical tape and zip ties to tidy things up a bit You simply connect the two Sync wires using connectors similar to the light blue crimp on ones I used below and then you slide the pins from the newly modified VGA cable into the AIO video cable 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card http web archive org web 20070529132408 http www shanecurd 6 of 10 E
11. running it i have 10 4 8 installed on my AIO i used PCI extreme enabler 3 1 i used the PCI extreme cheack app and shows the 7000 being enabled and shows a great improvement in GUI speed and other stuff has also gained in performance i was going to do this hace on my AIO but i grew on having extended desktop mode i like having the room January 24th 2007 Andrew says Where how did you find the pinout for the AIO connector I m looking for the Sync Ground on the card February 2nd 2007 Seth B says Frank M I am just getting started in doing some upgrades on my AIO I was wondering if you could give me some more information on some of upgrades you did like HDD DVD R Proccessor etc Any help would be greatly appreciated March 8th 2007 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a PCI Video Card http web archive org web 20070529132408 http www shanecurd Leave a comment Name required Mail will not be published required Website mrgreen neutral twisted shock smile cool evil grin oops razz roll wink cry eek lol mad sad Submit Comment RSS feed for these comments TrackBack URI bersetzen Sie zum Traduzca al Traduisez au Traduca ad Translate to English Deutsch German Espa ol Spanish Fran ais French Italiano Italian Traduza ao HARB ICAAR Lt AzA AA HAS oe ae Portugu s Portuguese amp gt Japanese A A
12. u Shameless plug Of course The easiest way for you to get this done is to purchase one of my pre manufactured solderless solutions already tested and ready to go Interested Click here Ok we re about ready to begin Before you get started doing anything hardcore you need to make sure of a couple of basic things First unscrew the back of the AIO so that the tray with the motherboard and all the goodies we re about to modify slides out As you slide the tray out you may need to disconnect some wires Once you have it out unscrew and remove the G3 Personality Card This is the large card that your speakers plug into from the outside Make sure you don t have an Apple modem installed If you do have an Apple modem installed you need to remove it for this mod to work as I intended Step 1 Go ahead and install your new ATI Radeon Mac PCI card into the PCI slot closest to where the Personality card once was Step 2 You ll need to modify your Personality Card If you have a modem installed in it you ll need to remove and discard the modem If you do not have the modem most don t then you ll need to remove the modem blank which is just a metal slug you can twist off of the card See below Before After ie Step 3 Now re install your Personality Card with the exposed gap where your modem should be or once was 2 of 10 11 28 07 12 32 AM The mis Adventures of Shane Curd Adding a P
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