At 10:25 +0000 12/08/2002, pdimage.fsnet.co.uk wrote: > still no go with the onboard 4megs vram - the vertical corruption >persists throughout the various dip settings. Put my XclaimVR out of the >Pulsar in it and it's fine but the constant hardware shuffling in a >claustrophobic case annoyed me so I unplugged it and made it stand in a >corner facing away from me until it learns to behave. How nice does it >want me to be? I put 640 megs of ram,a 24xcd,a fast HD and a G4/400 proc >in it...and gave it a beautiful black face lift. I sympathise with Victor >Frankenstein though his was plug ugly....
When you mention vertical corruption, does it create a repeated image about eight times across the screen? So when the happy mac comes up, there are like six or eight of them from one side of the screen to the other with the whole screen image shifted horizontally and superimposed on itself over and over? If that is the symptom you're getting your problem is most likely in the VRAM. You wouldn't be using Power Computing VRAM would you? I picked up several hundred VRAM modules at the Power Computing auction years ago and immediately sold most of them to MacSolutions, which caused me to break even. Sigh. Should have sold them individually I guess, but at the time having that much money tied up made me nervous so a quick sale, even at a low price, was good. Anyway, (boy do I digress) the remainder of the modules work great in Catalyst machines (7200, most PCC models), but they do what I described above in 7500 and 8500s and their successors. According to Tech Tool Pro they're perfect. And in a 7200, PowerCenter, PowerTower or PowerCurve they are perfect. So I was thinking that you might have some VRAM that behaves like mine does. They were apparently manufactured by...darn, now I can't remember the name of the company. It wasn't Kingston, but it was a pretty big name in Mac memory making. (Aha! Techworks, I think. I was reading another list, and this message was queued but not sent and someone mentioned the name.) Anyway they had a really nice fellow answering their email and it was a mystery to him as well why they would behave that way. Jeff Walther -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
