Firstly, thanks to Robyn for the input regarding my earlier problem. At the risk of being redundant, here's what I've learned about my J700, thanks to previous posts and a bit of trial and error. The 9.1 upgrade was hanging on boot because the USB Device Extension refused to load, because my Tango USB/Firewire card was in too low a PCI slot after having just plugged in an ATA/66 card with a new 80 gig HD attached to it. I moved the Tango card up to the B1 slot and now everything is tickity-boo. Nothing like re-inventing the wheel for two days. Next time I'll go straight to the archives.
However, it's not an entirely happy ending. I partitioned the new ATA drive with OS9.1 in one of the partitions and then reformatted the old Quantum 6 gig drive as the new home for the OSX install via the Sonnet PCI 1.2.6 installer. All went well and after about 30 minutes or so I was happily exploring the new system. Then I went to test the startup disc control panel to see how it reverts back to OS9.1. It didn't. It just defaulted back to that big gray apple logo and eventually rebooted back to OSX except that the screen resolution dropped down to that horrible 640 X 480 or thereabouts and stayed there no matter what, along with an ugly green cast. Could it be a compatibility issue with my TwinTurbo video card? Nevertheless, like everyone here I'm a firm believer in my 5 year old J700 despite the fact that I'm not a talented hacker like many in this group. Knock on wood, but I'm amazed at how well this machine works. After being on the road with my 700MHz iBook I come home to what seems to be a blazing fast Umax by comparison. Does anyone know why the Apple System Profiler lists my Sonnet G4 processor as running at 544MHz when the Sonnet software says its supposed to be 449MHz? Cheers, John -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
