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From: Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 2:17:20 PM
Subject: Re: problem wallstreet
On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Phyllis Swanson wrote:
> Hi -
> I've been lurking for a little while, and now inherited a problem
> Wallstreet. It has been upgraded from 233 to 466 Mhz, has 512 MB
> ram; the last time I saw, the hard drive was partitioned into three
> - for OSX, OS9, and data.
Hopefully the OS X partition is the 1st 8GB or less as required.
> The WS boots up fine - get the light grey screen with dark grey
> apple and the clockwise running lines, but when it's time to change
> the screen to finder it goes black. I hear the hard drive being
> accessed, but nothing on the screen.
This is a known issue of the Wallstreet and Beige G3 Rage graphics
cards. In a Beige, the easy solution is to use a Radeon PCI card in
forget about the built-in Rage. Unfortunately, you don't have that
option in the Wallstreet, although I seem to remember someone
mentioning a super expensive PCMCIA video card which probably doesn't
have good support for both OS 9 & X. Apple produced an Knowledge Base
Article on this common video problem, but their solution never worked
for me. XPostFacto has a "Patch Rage Driver" and "Use old NDRVs"
options that can help in some cases. Also, you can set the verbose
startup from within XPF Options so that you can see what's happening
during the Startup process, helpful with stalled. I would think that
using XPostFacto should be a MUST for a Wallstreet, even if you're
sticking with Jaguar 10.2. The XPF forums are pretty much dead, so
registering won't get you any help, but they're good to read, almost
everything has been discussed before. If you're using Panther or Tiger
on your Wallstreet post questions to the Unsupported OS X list at
Google groups.
> Is there any other info that someone may need?
Links:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25564>
<http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.html
>
Thank you, Ben and Kris! I've reinitialized and installed and upgraded to
10.2.8. I'm planning to add XPF and go from there. I almost don't want to give
this machine up to the student....
phyllis swanson
http://home.earthlink.net/~psswanson
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