My G3 Biege DT upgraded with 400 g4 encore, tempo 133, 3-80gb hardrives, firewire/usb,Yamaha CDR, and Radeon 7000 pci will not install OSX it has 9.2.2 on 2 partitions and 9.1 on another.
I'd like to also know if there's a magic bullet. I just installed Jaguar on a beige DT after having 9.2.2 installed and let me tell you it took over a week to get everything sorted out.
When I try to boot from the cd I get a blank screen. When I disconnect the video from the radeon and plug the monitor in to the onboard I get the samething.
I am no stranger to your blank screen, to IDE busses going temporarily dead between restarts, nor to Jag's equivalent to the "Sad Mac" (a lousy circle with a line though it, aka a "do not enter" symbol).
I have a KeySpan USB adapter, an ACARD AHARD ATA-66 "Big Claw" PCI adapter running a 20GB iMac HD and a Radeon 7000 also. At various times they were all pulled and put back in one at a time, and in different slots.
It's my belief most of the black screen issue is due to the beige's PRAM being too easily freaked out. Of course, with no video anywhere attempting to start up you can't do a normal Option-Command-P-R PRAM reset, now can you? I've BEEN there.
Alternatively, the blank screen could be caused by X not able to deal with one or more of your drives. I had some issues with two hard drives that had corrupted drivers. This also prevented X from not only seeing the drive, but it froze whatever bus it was one, thereby preventing booting.
If this turns out to be you, you should consider backing all of your software up somewhere and reformatting at least your boot drive either running under 9 in the beige or in an external FireWire case attached to another Mac. See: if the X installer can't deal with one or more of your drives, the screen could remain blank.
If your problems aren't related to your drives you can clear the PRAM one of two ways. Either leave everything as-is, remove the battery, unplug it and reset the CUDA and then put back the battery and start up, or you can pull PCI cards one at a time until it either starts or you're out of cards and have to reset the CUDA anyway.
Try pulling the Radeon and FireWire/USB cards first. I had tried a Belkin USB card that should have worked but didn't and prevented booting. And if the PRAM is wonked-out the presence of the Radeon, even with no monitor connected, isn't going to help. But normally, having the Radeon installed but with no monitor is fine.
If that doesn't work pull the Tempo next. Since you already have your drives setup pull each except the one you wish to install X on and connect it to motherboard IDE by itself. If still a black screen (wait a while and make sure neither the HD nor the CDROM isn't moving --- the screen will stay black a little longer than when booting from 9) --- then shut down, lose the battery and unplug it a while. Press CUDA. Put back the battery and restart. Assuming that works do your X install. If it doesn't verify that the CD drawer still opens -- if it doesn't that IDE bus is hosed and you should turn it off and start the computer again.
Put back the cards one by one; I don't know if any particular order is important. You still may have some CUDA resets ahead of you.
Note that I have done exactly as I've described above; sometimes it worked, sometimes not. Don't forget to check which phase the moon is in and adjust your feng shui as appropriate. Also, if you should experience chimes of death sometimes (welcome to my world) during troubleshooting don't be discouraged, just hit that CUDA again. Along the way you may try to restart into X but instead be greeted with 9.
FYI when you finally get it going know that the Radeon will come online much later than it does when booting from 9. With the Radeon it stays blank for the "Happy Mac" (10.1)/gray Apple(10.2) and for most of the Welcome to Mac OS X screen.
-David
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