How can I tell if my Power Macintosh Beige G3 is rev. B or later?
Use the Apple System Profiler, located in the Apple menu, to help determine which logic board revision you have. Open Apple System Profiler, click the System Profile tab within the window, and then look at the Production Information section. Compare it to the table below to determine which revision of the logic board is in your Power Macintosh G3 (platinum) computer. ROM Logic Board Versions Revision $77D.40F2 revision A $77D.45F1 revision B $77D.45F2 revision C. Q: On a Macintosh, FireWire does not function or I receive an error message when trying to access a device attached to the FireWire card. There may be a 3rd party extension conflicting with the Apple FireWire extensions. The best way to determine this is to use the Mac OS base extensions set. If the problem stops after booting with this set, you have an extension conflict and you will have to track down the offending extension. Note: If you are trying to access a CD-RW using Toast, the Apple “FireWire Authoring Support” extens
