<sigh!> I knew it had to be too good to be true. :(
I was FINALLY successful in upgrading my Powercenter Pro 210 to OS X, with the help of: a) a Sonnet 800 Mhz G4 Crescendo b) a Radeon 7000 Video card. c) XPostFacto d) a new IDE Hard drive (attached to a Sonnet Tempo ATA100 card) e) a new battery f) hours and hours of frustration (over a period of 6 months) The only real problem I have now is that it takes (literally) _6_Minutes_ to boot into OS X. I'm guessing that has something to do with the throttle control and having to check all 448MB of RAM. The scary thing is, the screen is black the whole while, with NOTHING to indicate that it is successfully booting. But that's ok. I can live with that. Having accomplished that, I decided it was time to get Virtual PC up and running again (after 6 months or so of not using it), to see if my new 800 mhz processor would make it a little snappier. Knowing that it would work better in OS 9, I rebooted into that OS before I started. I went to the Connectix Website (before it disappears) and found the 4.02 upgrade, the notes to which SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT SUPPORT FOR SONNET's Crescendo G4 cards, and applied the upgrade. Alas, it didn't work, and froze the computer completely up. What I see is the dos screen with "Windows 98 Starting up.." and then a thin white line above the words, and the whole machine (the mac) is frozen solid. Thinking that maybe my disk image is bad, I create a new image, and insert the Win98 CD, and boot from the CD. It runs through several DOS screens of options, and then goes to the full screen installation banner, and freezes there. You can imagine my frustration. I THINK that the problem is with the video card. I think that VPC doesn't work at all with the Radeon because the Radeon is (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) a Voodoo based card, which Connectix said they stopped supporting after version 3. (Incidently, I tried it with Version 3, and it booted in "safe mode", but I couldn't get it past the 16 color 640x480 screen without it crashing.) Can anyone think of a solution/workaround to make this system work? I wondered if I plugged a second monitor into the on-board video if that would work. I suppose if I were desperate, I could unplug from the Radeon and into the onboard video whenever I wanted to use Virtual PC, but man is THAT a pain. Any comments/insight would be appreciated. _________ | homas Thomas A. Compter Software Engineer General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products 802-657-6103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
