on 7/14/03 12:12 PM, christopher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the slots can make a difference but also the extension load order (esp.
> of the twin turbo extensions) - try a few different configs. i have my
> card in slot B1 and i don't seem to have the problem anymore. i
> remember though i had to try a few different configs because of my ATTO
> UW-SCSI card and an XLR8 FW/USB card (ATTO is currently in slot A1 and
> FW/USB in slot 3 (C1?))
>
7/14/03 2:06PM:
Thanks very much to both Christopher & Daevad for such quick response!
I tried the card in A1, but it doesn't seem to have helped much, although at
first it did... but since then it's been pretty much hit & miss. It's as
though the computer often forgets what type of monitor has been plugged into
it since the last startup; the list of available modes even disappears. And
sometimes (moreso since I moved the card and removed old monitor-related
pref's) the machine will boot into a horribly lime-green tinted screen,
which shows up in the Twin Turbo CP as "Sync on Green".
Christopher, you mentioned changing the extension load order. There's
something, as a Mac OS newbie, that I'm not familiar with how-to-do. Could
you fill me in on this?
Thanks again, everyone! :)
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>
> On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 09:34 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:
>
>> Hello, all!
>> I'm fairly new to this list, but I must say, what a wonderful
>> community
>> you've got going here! I'm also relatively new to the Mac scene,
>> having
>> been a PC'er for many years. I picked up this S900 as a set of "Mac OS
>> training wheels", if you will, until I've saved up enough for a
>> certain G3
>> B&W I've got my eyes on. I have to admit, I was totally blown away by
>> the
>> power of what I thought was an antiquated machine with this S900! I
>> can
>> well imagine what kind of fun you guys are having with it accelerated.
>> :)
>> However, I've run into an annoying little hiccup: sometimes when I
>> cold
>> boot, or even when I restart, I lose my set screen resolution and
>> colour
>> depth. I am running an SVGA monitor on a Twin Turbo card set to
>> 1024x768
>> 100 Hz, millions of colours, with Twin Turbo Control Panel installed
>> (note:
>> I was having this problem before installing the control panel, as
>> well).
>> Occassionally, I loose this resolution when starting and it defaults to
>> 640x480, thousands of colours, and when I check either the Monitors CP
>> or
>> the Twin Turbo CP, no other resolution is listed as available. The
>> only way
>> I can fix it is to reboot while clearing the PRAM, and even then it
>> often
>> takes a couple of tries. Any ideas?
>> Oh, one more note: the display adapter is in one of the lower 4 PCI
>> slots. I've thought of moving it to one of the upper two. Would that
>> help?
>> Thanks, guys 'n gals! :)
>>
>
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