Lines popping up in an animation followed by the computer freezing is indicative of a failing video card. What you're seeing is called "artifacting" and it's caused by either a failing GPU chip, or failing memory on the card. It can also be caused by using the wrong ROM to flash the card, causing the memory to want to run at the 2.2ns speed instead of the 2.8ns speed that's more common. Some cards in the PeeCee world also ran at 3.2ns and are incompatible with any Mac ROM. Look up the RAM chips that are on your card to verify the speed memory you have and ensure the ROM you used is compatible with said chips.
If all else fails and you've done everything right, the card is likely on it's way out. The 9800 Pro's built by PowerColor and Sapphire as "OEM" cards are well known to die without warning and prematurely whether they're modified or not. It's an unfortunate fact of life! I've got a drawer of several that have died, whether they're flashed for the Mac or running bone stock in a PC. When the 9800 Pro was king, I ran one in my PeeCee desktop, and I remember filing warranty claims with ATI 4 times when I ran it. On the 5th failure of my own card, I junked ATI and never used them again! Regarding your transparent bar: The sawtooth that won't display the transparent bar IS running Leopard right? Tiger and before didn't have the transparent bar. If you're running Leo and still have a solid bar, type the following into the terminal, hit the return key, then log out and log back in again: sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' Hopefully that helps. On Jul 8, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello, I am Mark, the one who has recently successfully flashed an ATI > Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB of RAM to a Mac, but there's some problems I've > been having. Whenever I enter the time machine, the graphics are animated and > everything moves as in i was in space, but then again a bunch of lines pop-up > and the entire computer freezes. I click cancel to exit time machine, and > most of the lines disappear, but some stay with the windows while other lines > stay with the mouse. Also, whenever I plug this into my other Sawtooth Power > Mac, the menu bar is transparent, which is something I really want. The other > monitor is 1280x1024 and it's a 17" and that one has a clear menu bar, but my > sawtooth i'm using right now doesn't have a clear menu bar. The one i am > using right now has the flashed card and the monitor is a 23" Widescreen dell > monitor at 1366x768. Is there a reason behind why my video card doesn't want > to display the transparent bar: > > There are 2 possibilities i have in mind: > > 1) The sawtooth I originally used to flash the video card was the only > machine that showed the transparent bar (I only have 2 AGP machines, the rest > are PCI and PCIe) > 2) maybe 1366x768 is not a supported resolution for the transparent bar. > > Any help is needed and very much appreciated! Thank you very much. > > -- > Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
