cryptic?? hmm, i dont understand how, but Ill try again....
I have a Umax S900 with 432 MB RAM, Radeon Mac Edition PCI, original Matsushita CD
drive, Sonnet ATA/133 PCI card, one 45 gig HD partitioned into 2 drives, one with Mac
OS9.1, the other blank which I want to install OSX on. Up until one week ago, I still
had my original SCSI E100 two 2GB drives running OS9.1. Things happened where I had to
put my 45gb External Firewire HD as an internal HD with a Sonnet Tempo 133 card, so I
removed the E100 and two SCSI drives. So I tried installing OSX with XPFacto onto the
blank partition, inserted OSX Jaguar CD, and rebooted according to instructions from
RYan Rempel. Problem was, there was no reboot...I had a gray screen with the Apple
logo....the same splash screen from Jaguar, and it just stayed there...no drives
reading or cdrom spinning like it was booting either, they were just idle. I also read
here on the list that only an Apple CDROM player can install OSX...the default
Matsushita cd drive I had in there wouldnt work from what I read. So I ordered an
Apple 8X internal CDROM. I just got the Apple CDROM drive yesterday.....popped it in
UNDER the original cdrom drive, and rebooted. Nothing happened.....the default screen
that comes up with every monitor, the words "Power Saver" in a white box on a black
screen...in other words, I was getting no signal, to my assumption anyways. I tried a
few times again with unplug power cable, press CUDA key, zap pram, etc to no avail.
Then I also recall seeing that you cant install with a Radeon card, but a default Twin
Turbo card or older card would work. Well, I sold my TT128, but I had a Mactell
Power3D vid card laying around, and popped that in. Still no signal, nor cdrom
booting. I even took out the CDROM drive and put EVERYTHING back to original way
before trying to install OSX, and nothing boots up at all, just a blank screen, no
video signal, no DOS looking prompts or command lines, nothing. Ive tried everything
here as far as I know, am I missing something???
Hope this helps a little better. =)
Nick
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