I bought a Radeon 9200 from a fellow lister way back in Dec 2008. Needless to say the project I was working on never happened and now I am finally trying to use the card on a new to me Quicksilver.
The Quicksilver boots up with the original video card but the machine will not even power up with the 9200 card installed. Any clues on what I am doing wrong? I have reseated it several times with the power off of course. My google searches have been rather unproductive. Any help or guidance in finding answers would be appreciate. The Quicksilver which I just picked up from a fellow lister has 10.3 on it and I still have to connect it to the network to get it fully updated to 10.3.9 (?). I have the family edition of 10.5 and I plan to put that on it eventually since I don't have 10.4 and don't feel like investing in another OS. I wanted to get the newer video card working first. Would it be easier after I install 10.5? (Yes I know 10.5 will be more sluggish than 10.4 but thats OK for what I do on it since I was happy with 10.5 on a 450mhz Sawtooth) Also, the Quicksilver sees the network but cannot log in. It does not recognize the password. Could it be the "protocol" WEP, WPA, etc in 10.3 is not compatible with encryption systtem being used by my router and MacBook Pro ( I think it is an N and at least a G -hmmmm I may hve locked out all B traffic when I set it up) (I thought I knew how to find out what standard I am using with the MacBook pro but I can't remember how to check that right now.) I was concentrating on the Video card issue first. I don't think the problem is OS related since I can get absolutely no startup - no chime, beep, etc on the machine with the card installed but then what do i know? Even if 10.3 can't handle the 9200, I would expect it at least to try to power up and then have whatever problems it might have. Thanks for any guidance. - -- Marty -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
