On Sunday, January 15, 2006, at 02:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
I made the additions at about the same time, and I'd had trouble in the
past with the SIIG card, so, initially, I couldn't be sure exactly what
was causing the trouble, so I went back to the original setup the G4
arrived with that had seemed to work well enough. Then I pulled and
tested the DIMMs. You'd think by now I'd know better than to do
multiple upgrades at the same time! (Any ideal what firmware screen
kept cropping up? I wish I'd noted it then...)
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.
As of this writing, I have the system fully operational, with the
exception of the Rage 128 Pro card. Apparently when the Raedon 7000
card is having issues, it's with the currently installed ATI driver
(and from what I've read, it seems that whenever ATI offers updates to
fix 5 bugs, the update will have 6 new bugs...) With careful choosing
from the stable of ATI drivers available (from my various Mac OS
install disks, and online), the 7000 is happy, but, the Rage is still
DOA.
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