Listers, I have an 8500 and over the weekend a friend and I installed an ATI PCI graphics card. This is an OEM ATI Radeon 7000 card pulled from an xServe G4. We installed it in the bottom PCI slot. I'd hoped to use the ATI drivers installed with OS 9.1.
The Apple System Profiler recognizes the card and reports: Slot C1 Display card Card type: display Card name: ATI BlueStar Card model: ATI RV100 Card ROM #: 113-85505-110 Card revision: 0 Card vendor ID: 1002 VRAM size: 32 MB But the card didn't show up in the monitors control panel, so I could switch video over to it. I zapped the PRAM, no dice. I downloaded and installed the latest retail drivers for Radeon 7000 from the ATI site, although they are recommended for OS 9.2 and not supported under 9.1. The ATI control panel error reports "ATI displays cannot find any ATI display product." These are the extensions installed. The ATI Graphics Accelerator appears in "The March of Extensions" with a red X, so I assume it's not loading. Extensions present ATI Mac2TV� Monitor ATI 3D Accelerator ATI 8500 3D Accelerator ATI Driver Update ATI Extension ATI Graphics Accelerator ATI Guide ATI Radeon 3D Accelerator ATI Rage 128 3D Accelerator ATI Resource Manager ATI ROM Xtender ATI Video Accelerator ATI Video Digitizer Does anyone have any other troubleshooting ideas before we go (shudder) back into the case? Any other way to test the card? Although the friend who sold it to me assures me it was pulled from a working system. As a possible relevant side note, I had an old iMicro Ultimate Rez installed in that self-same slot that gave me erratic performance. First it would work, then it wouldn't. I assumed it was the card, could it be the slot? Any way to test the slot itself? And remember, we're talking about an 8500 case.... Cheryl -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
