Crisso wrote: >David, > >You get a picture in both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, so the flash seems to be >successful. >The rest: Driver or configuration problems, I think. > >First: The ATI requires slot A or B, even the original Mac version does not >work on the PCI bridge, at least not mine. Try it in Slot A, if it doesn't >work, post back.
No, there is no output at all, and OS X won't even boot with the card installed. OS 9 only boots with most extensions disabled but again, the flash on the Mac-side didn't work so any monitor connected to it currently stays black. Will wrote: >It sounds like the flashing went ok in the PC and the issues is with >the Mac flashing but not sure. That is my hope, and my impression so far. >For the record it is best to flash on the PC when booted from a dos >boot floppy and not the hard drive. One advantage of this is dos >doesn't use the drivers so the flashed card will still boot into dos >regardless if it's PC or Mac flashed. As it happens I've now borrowed another PC. As I mentioned I put the card back in the other PC briefly and attempted to finish the job there since I already had the Mac ROM on the same floppy, but the machine wouldn't boot or come close to giving me a prompt. A friend suggested trying a different PC, one with perhaps newer BIOS that might not be as particular about a now-foreign card in a PCI slot. Is there a way to boot into BIOS and tell it to ignore that slot if necessary. Seems that's be a double-edged sword; if it worked the flash utility might not later see the PCI slot in question? I'm grasping here. I also now have access to a boot floppy and can try adding the flash stuff to it. >You will know if the Mac Rom is flashing correctly as it will show a >progress bar in a small window. If you don't see this progress bar it >isn't running correctly. It took me several times before it ran for me. Will, when you had to run it several times, what sort of indication was it giving you that it wasn't working? Merely a blank screen afterwords or an error message like I received? Granted I only ran it about three times but there wasn't anything encouraging about the error message. Never saw a progress bar. >Apple system profiler will then show the rom file number and that it is >an Aty card. There should be no reason to turn extensions off in fact >this may be the problem. I had started with a fresh 9.2.2; had been running fine for a few days, some unused things disabled. First few times I didn't get any icons, not even the first you see (Open Transport). However since the ROM updater would fail with some sort of "InterfaceLib" or some such error when launched it was clear I had to go back and re-enable some things. Since the Updater runs in both 9 and X I knew it was Carbon so CarbonLib was obvious. I added Quicktime back and that got it going. Guess I'll keep adding things until it crashes again (But see below for my request...) >Another possible problem the Mac Rom flasher currently at ATI may or >may not work on the Sapphire card. ATI pulled the flasher for a week or >so after taking legal action against web sites which were posting the >file. It was speculated they may have made changes so it would only >work in the ATI cards. It's not known if this is true or not. I do know >that i have a copy of the original file which I could send you. It has >the same name but is older. Will I'd like to take you up on this offer if it isn't too much trouble. Everything I've done seems to indicate that the procedure on the PC side went OK but that the "208" Updater I downloaded was not happy with what it found, and I'm not surprised. >You can get this to work but may take some work. The card can be >flashed as many times as is needed to get it to work. So one bad flash >isn't going to stop you from doing it again. >Best of luck. Will S Thanks for the encouragment and if you'd be willing to send me your Updater at your leisure I'd very much appreciate it. -David -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
