You get an income tax refund ???? I wish I could get an income tax refund......
Seriously, though, go to the ATI site and download the Universal Installer 4.2. It will install a few ATI extensions for the GA, VR and GX ATI XClaim cards and that will probably do the trick. Mike Michael McMurtrey wrote: > My 8500/9600 MoBo/xlr8 G3 300MHz/768 Mb RAM/18 GB Hard Drive has an ATI > Xclaim VR128 (16 MB). It is currently connected to a > Magnavox Apple Color Display (13"/14") via a Griffin gView adapter until > my income tax refund gets me a 21" monitor. > > Except for its small size, the performance of the monitor is adequate. > But, when I try to open the ATI Displays control panel, I get the following > message: "ATI Displays could not be loaded. perhaps the ATI Extension is > not inside the System Folder or the Extensions were turned off during > start up." There is no "ATI Extension" as such. The ATI extensions > actually are: > > ATI 3d Accelerator > ATI Driver Update > ATI Graphics Accelerator > ATI MPP Manager (currently off) > ATI 3d Radeon Accelerator (currently off) > ATI Rage 128 3d Accelerator > ATI Resource Manager > ATI ROM Extender > > Is the ATI displays control panel not loading because this is not a > multi-sync monitor? > > Another oddity: when I try to run TechTool Pro, I get a message that > says "Sorry, but a 640 x 480 screen is required to run TechTool Pro." I > thought this was a 640 x 480 monitor, and the Display control panel > identifies it as 640 x 480, 67 Hz, yet the Apple System Profiler says it > is a 640 x 454 monitor. I've tried zapping the PRAM and/or trashing the > Monitor preferences, but this has no effect on screen size. What's the > deal here? > > On the TechTool v. Norton debate, I have both and use both on my G4/OS > 9.2.2 at work, and neither has ever given me any trouble. Norton works > fine on the G3. In fact, I used Norton long before I ever used TechTool, > going back to OS 7.5. But both are good products, and I would use > TechTool on the G3 as well were it not for the monitor issue. > -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
