=:-O Wow - and to think how upset I get when my S900 just crashes. To look on the bright side, you're lucky to still have a roof over you head - if you your house had been empty when the S900 started cooking... Ultimate Rez is a video card, right? (Maybe they didn't sell them in the UK) I imagine you know about the 'top slots' issue with S900s - could it be that it requires one of the top 2 slots to work, or did you have it working in one of the other slots before. The only reason I can think of for you TurboMax card weirdness is some sort of driver problem. Try re-installing the drivers, if their are any, or seeing if you can update firmware. (Can firmware get corrupted?) Good luck, James Harvard >on 7/24/01 1:44 PM, Neil wrote: > >> Due to unrelated problems with my Turbomax card, I had to move it to a >> different slot, right under my Ultimate Rez card. When I closed the case, >> it must have pushed the ide cable onto the UR card because during breakfast, >> I noticed the overload siren from my ups. I ran to my computer to find >> smoke billow from the case. I pulled the UR card and plugged my main >> monitor into the TwinTurbo. I got a black screen on reboot. Next, I pulled >> the ide card and was able to boot and power down from the keyboard, but the >> screen was black. I zapped the pram and it's still black. Does anybody >> here have any ideas? > >I tried my other monitor and it worked. I guess only my main monitor got >fried, not motherboard video circuits. I couldn't see the ide drives >though. I thought the Turbomax card was toast until I tried a different pci >slot. This box is worth a lot less without those top two slots. It looks >like I lost the Ultimate Rez card, my best monitor, and the top pci >slot(s?). At least I have all my data. > >By the way, here's that unrelated problem with the Turbomax ide/33 card. >I've been running two drive on it for a year. Each drive is set to master >and plugged into a different port on the card. Suddenly, I couldn't boot at >all. It looked like a dead mobo battery. I changed it but still no go. I >pull everything out of my box and add back little by little. Everything is >fine if I unplug one hard drive. I sawp it out for a known good drive. >Next, I try a new ide cable. Finally, it turns out I can put two drives (a >master and a slave) on either channel, but I can't put a master on each one >at the same time. Is that strange? -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | --Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED]| & CDRWs on Sale! | Star Trek Collection: Movies 1-7 on VideoCD, $38.88 from CoolVCD <http://lowendmac.com/ad/coolvcd.html> - - - - - SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
