I got the unit working after I bought a replacement supply from Fry's. I bought a 350 watt ATX supply, which has about double the current rating of the old supply on things like the +5 and the 3.3 volt lines. The only think I lost was the monitor power recepticle on the back. Other than that the unit works great. This thing is a big improvement over my old 8100/80 CPU, even with the G3 Accelerator card.
My costs were:
$50 for the CPU $6 for the battery $65 for the supply $125 for the 20 inch Apple Multiscan display. ----- 246.00 Total
On 10/04/2000 09:46 AM, headgap wrote:
>On 10/2/00 6:28 PM, Daniel O'Leary wrote: > >>I have replaced the 3.6 V lithium batter on the G3 logic card, if that is >>the battery you are refering to below. I am unfamiliar with the "Cuda" >>Switch. The only switch I can see the the miniature pushbutton that is >>connected to the logic card via a harness, and used to power the system >>up. > >I don't happen to have any power supplies for the G3 Tower. You might >look at the replacement PC power supplies in the CompUSA I recently >shoehorned one into a Power120. I had to break off the little plastic >tabs to make it fit the plugs but it works fine and was only $25. I >know nothing of the configurations or voltages on the G3 but suspect >they may be the same as. > >The cuda switch is a tiny square metal box on the motherboard. It has a >circular red or gray button in the middle of it. It is the reset for >the whole motherboard and you have evidently been extremely lucky not to >know about them. They call it the button of last resort. I have had to >use it on a few occasions. You are more likely to need it when changing >processors. I have fixed dead machines this way and it is the first >thing I try when someone tells me the machine is dead. Good luck. >
