David, I appreciate your words of wisdom and I will follow these instructions.
Thanks > > From: David Deckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/07/14 Mon PM 02:45:53 EDT > To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: G3 biege won't boot or install OSX > > > 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 > > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? 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