Sorry if this isn't the best forum...
I just received a G4 Gigabit Ethernet with 256M and a Rage 128 Pro AGP
card installed. I added an ATI Raedon 7000 PCI card from my retiring
PM9500 and ran both of my monitors (21" & 19"), one attached to each
card. Seemed to work fine, no problems (I know the Raedon will run
both monitors, but it also divides the VRAM when you do that). Also
installed my SIIG ATA133 controller card and two 40G drives, also
donated from the 9500.
A couple of days later I received the memory for the G4, a couple of
Micron 512MB. Power off, installed both RAM modules (wearing an
antistatic wrist strap), and powered it up. It froze a couple of
seconds into bootup, repeating that with the next couple of startup
attempts. On the third try, some firmware screen came up (I'd never
seen one before, and I can't tell you what it was firmware for). The
next couple of tries also went to the firmware screen. [Panic begins
to set in] Removed the new RAM, ATA controller card and Raedon 7000
card; later testing showed one of the new RAMs was bad, and I removed
it. No more errors during memory tests.
Since then, however, the Rage 128 Pro card won't work, and isn't seen
by Apple Profiler; the G4 usually won't startup if the Rage is in the
AGP slot! The Raedon 7000 PCI also began doing weird things during
subsequent startups into OS9, and sometimes still does but not always
(but strangely, boots into OSX.2 just fine). The problems seem defined
by having the Rage card in place, and also booting into OS9.2 (no
problems with OSX.2 at all). The SIIG ATA card seems unfazed by all
this, as well as the dual 40G drives.
I tried replacing the ATI drivers, reloading OS9 (several times),
checked the motherboard for the newest version of the firmware (it's
got it already). I reached the end of my wild guesses pretty fast this
time. Any help out there? Thanks in advance...
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