Robt Baucom Wrote: I was told the G4 board only would work on a Power TOWER Pro. So saying I elected to buy the G3 500MHz for my PCP 240. You must have gotten a "new hire" at Sonnet, that didn't know power computing from Apple Jack. Make them refund the postage also.
RHB ******* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <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
