Howie S wrote:
Too bad. I don't know what vid card is in there. Maybe I'll see if 10.2 will work.There are some issues that are unique to the Power Tower machines, but a black screen would seem to indicate an unsupported video card. On our UMAX machines we generally had to have the original TwinTurbo video card for an OS X install, and after a successful install and reboot we could replace the TwinTurbo with an ATI card, and it would work. Now, with OS X 10.2 many ATI cards work for the installation process instead of just after the install was completed.
Well, I'm not in a position to upgrade a machine right now. I was hoping to get this to run just so I could experiment with it even if it is slow. I'm afraid I don't know as much about the PowerTowers as I do about the Umax machines because I don't belong to that group. I do have a C500, but the reason I got on here at all was because of a S900 that I've given to my sister-in-law. It's just been too interesting and informative to leave! Besides, when I find an even better machine for her, I get the S900 back. 8^)
My Pioneer CDROM, when it failed, would boot the X install CD, and the
installation would appear to begin, but it would never complete. Even after
a couple of hours it would just sit there stalled. The installation, with a
supported CD, drive doesn't take hours... More like 30 minutes or less as I
recall, and that was with a slow Yamaha 4x8 CDr.
Keep in mind that the whole exercise can be not worth the bother if a slow
processor is involved. An older 604, or a slow G3, will likely not provide a
satisfactory OS X experience. A G3/300 or better would be my recommendation,
and at least 192 mb RAM too, preferably much more.
-Howie
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