Beige G3 side panel broken :(

Hey,

Not sure what you mean by "side panel"? My Beige G3 has a cover that seems to be one piece. How did you damage it?

William
www.williamahearn.com

I'm guessing the OP has a beige G3 minitower, not a desktop. But I could be wrong.

M

He must mean the minitower side panel which I leave off sometimes when I'm running my Beige G3. If anything, the Beige probably runs cooler with it off. That minitower was based on the design of the Powermac 8600/9600 towers but those two previous towers had their large main case fan mounted on the side panel so it could blow directly on the processor and other close components, so the side panel needed to be in place when the machine was on. The Beige tower is shorter than those previous cases so that the frame with the optical drives and PSU which folds out covers the ZIF processor when in place and the PSU fan operates as the processor cooler replacing the function of the fan on the side panels of the 8600/9600, so the Beige side panel does nothing but cover that side. If it can't be fixed and you can't find a replacement cheaply, and you feel the need to have your G3 covered on all six sides, then there's the other option of transferring the motherboard to a PC case. The Beige can run on an PC ATX PSU simply by flicking a switch on its motherboard. That would also give you space to mount a decent fan on top of the ZIF heat sink for assured cooling. That's a lot of work for such an old motherboard, but we all get our jollies somehow, I reckon.

See here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~wilko/Mac-G3-ATX/