Hi John, Your problem sound just like mine!
Go back through the posts over the past 24 to 26 hours. Look for the ones labeled "OT seriously in need of help." Jeff Walther came up with the answer to my problem. I am still not back to fully functional, but making progress. ( I may have a bad SCSI drive and maybe a bad SCSI cable.) Good luck! Nancy > John H. Reinhardt wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions on the next place to look for a problem > I'm having with my UMAX S900. I successfully added a XLR8 G4/400 Carrier > card, a VST UltraTek/66 IDE card, upgraded to OS 9, then to OS X 10.1.5. > Having gotten that far I decided to replace my ixMicro Ultimate Rez > video > card with the ATI Radeon 7000 (since 10.1.5 fixed the issues with OS X). > And there my luck ran out... For a while I got video out. The computer > would boot, but the cursor was stuck in the upper left corner. > Although, if > I moved the mouse, things would highlight like the cursor moved. It just > didn't show. So I put the Ultimate Rez back in and connected a borrowed > monitor. Both screens came on, the Ultimate Rez was the primary one. I > still had the cursor problem though. I could drag windows between the > screens. So I ran the monitors control panel (having gone back to OS > 9.1) > and everything froze. Now when I boot the system I get one chime when > the > power comes on and that's it. Black screen on everything. I've tried > zapping the parameter ram until my fingers were twisted from holding > down > the keys.. nothing. I have a permanent indentation on my finger from > holding down the CUDA switch too. I even took out the motherboard > battery. > Once for a few minutes, once for 6 hours and once for 14 hours. Still > nothing. I'm stumped. Any ideas? Oh, I tried both video boards in a J700 > and they work, so it's not the boards. It's the S900. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
