Macintosh Server G3 Documentation

Apple documentation for the Macintosh Server G3.

Setting Up Your Macintosh Server G3 (1999)

Setting Up Your Macintosh Server G3 is Apple's 78-page owner's guide, "Includes setup and expansion information for the Macintosh Server G3 with Mac OS X Server", © 1999 Apple Computer. It covers the blue and white Server G3, with USB, FireWire and ADB ports, a Wide Ultra2 SCSI card with two drives and a four-port 10/100 Ethernet card. Page numbers below are the guide's printed numbers, which match the PDF pages.

Contents

• Preface, Introducing the Macintosh Server G3 (p. 9): hardware and software features (10), hardware and software limitations in Mac OS X Server (11)
• Chapter 1, Setting Up (p. 13): ports and connectors (16), plugging in and the voltage switch (18), monitor, keyboard and mouse, Ethernet (25)
• Chapter 2, Working Inside the Server (p. 31): memory (32–33), internal storage and Wide Ultra2 SCSI drives (33–35), PCI cards and their power (35–36), the battery (36), opening the server (37), installing DRAM (40), installing drives (42), installing a PCI card (52), replacing the battery (55), closing the server (56)
• Chapter 3, Starting Up Your Server (p. 59): turning it on and off, problems turning it on (61), using it without a monitor, restoring software
• Chapter 4, Health, Safety and Maintenance (p. 67)

What it settles

• The server's 3.6 V lithium backup battery is on the main logic board (p. 36).
• Memory: PC-100 SDRAM, 3.3 V, unbuffered, 64-bit, 168-pin, no taller than 2.0 in, in four slots to 1024 MB; 256 MB DIMMs must use 128 Mbit chips; DIMMs need not be paired (p. 33).
• PCI: slot 1 is a 66 MHz, 3.3 V slot holding the graphics card; with the SCSI and Ethernet cards fitted there is room for one more 33 MHz card drawing up to 25 W (p. 36).
• SCSI IDs: factory drives use 0, 1 and 2, the SCSI card 7 (p. 46).
• The voltage switch must be set correctly: "115" for 100–120 V, "230" for 200–240 V (p. 18).
• Mac OS X Server of the time did not support FireWire, USB devices other than the keyboard and mouse, DVD-ROM discs, modem connections or most add-on PCI cards (p. 11).

What it does not contain

A user's guide: no service procedures beyond the customer-installable parts, no symptom charts, no part numbers or component data. It does not cover the 1998 beige Server G3.

Pages that cite this document

• Macintosh Server G3

Download: Setting Up Your Macintosh Server G3 (1999).pdf