Re: Daystar genesis problems and Video card

[Michael Shaw]

Dig into the Daystar site if you haven't already, and download the 
trouble-shooting guides there. I suspect that at one time Daystar tech
new more about Apple Tsunami motherboards than Apple knew about them.

Then take the Voodoo card out and look at it carefully to make sure that
there is no discolouration around the processor chip to indicate that it
has overheated.

Then throw it away and put in a cheap ATI card like the 4-meg Mach64,
just to try it out. I used to have several here that I picked up at
garage sales or swap meets for $4.00 or $5.00.

I have two Daystar 800 MP boxes here, one with a very lame 32-meg Radeon
7000 (for OSX compatibility) and a 64-meg Voodoo 5 5500 in the other, I
think.

My favourite all-porpoise video cards for the Daystar computers are the
8-meg Number Nine Imagine 128, ixMicro 8-meg Ultimate Rez (in spite of
the artifacts), 64-meg Voodoo5 5500, and of course the truly OUTSTANDING
Formac 300 MHz 16-meg Proformance 3.

Check on eBay and also replace the PRAM battery. That can KILL the
video.

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