At 10:23 PM -0500 01/14/2006, Philip Black wrote:
G4 Gigabit Ethernet with 256M and a Rage 128 Pro AGP card installed.
ATI Raedon 7000 PCI card
SIIG ATA133 controller card and two 40G drives
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.
Why remove all the other working hardware?
Why didn't you just pull one of the DIMMs, then the other?
Since then, however, the Rage 128 Pro card won't work, and isn't
seen by Apple Profiler
It sounds like you had a single-failure (DIMM) and then added new
failures by pulling and reinstalling the other hardware.
Slow down.
Get a baseline minimal system working, with one video card and the
memory. Then add the other things one at a time.
- Dan.
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