OK. I'm using Sonnet's PCI X installer on my G4 800 equipped Umax S900, and here is my issue: The installer does its thing, after which, I am prompted to restart the machine, and, of course, I do so. After restart, however, I get nothing but a sleeping monitor. The monitor just sleeps, and nothing else happens. I give it a few minutes, than either shut the machine down, or eject the OS X install CD, and, eventually, my machine finds its OS 9.1 partition. I've heard of this happening before, so I'm sure there's a solution out there. Sonnet told me to install the hard drive in an iMac or other G3/4 machine, install OS X on it, then run their X Tune-Up software, and place the drive back in my machine. Yes the drive is IDE, connected to a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 PCI card. By the way, Sonnet already stated that the PCI card is not the issue, so that is not the issue. Of course, although my friend has an iMac he'll most likely let me use, I may not always have such a luxury, so I need to be able to install it without such efforts. I have already tried removing my other upgrades, and even replaced my Radeon card with the stock vid card, only to hit the same results. All attempts, all configurations lead me back to the sleeping screen with nothing else.
Any and all help is appreciated... except any about keeping an OS 9-only machine, so please don't bother I know OS X will install and run on this machine, it's been done by others My Specs: Sonnet Crescendo 800mhz G4 w/ 1mb of L3 cache 144mb of RAM 2Gig SCSI hard drive (stock, used as backup and virtual memory swap partition) Sonnet Tempo ATA133 IDE card with a 60Gb Western Digital hard drive split into three partitions the first of which is set up for OS X (3Gb), the second for OS 9 IDE IG DVD/CDRW Combo Drive Sonnet Tango USB/Firewire card ATI Radeon 7000 video card Formac ProTV/Stereo tuner card Thanx -Antonio -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
