i have the following configuration:
umax s900/200 with a newertech gr/400 upgrade
700+ MB ram
slot 1 - atto express-pci UW scsi card
connected to a seagate barracuda hd
slot 2 - twin turbo 128 vid card
slot 3 - firewire direct usb/fw cardin addition, there were two cd drives (one stock and one yamaha cdrw drive) and a 2gb western digital drive connected to the system scsi bus. i have been running os 9.1 and all this was running fine and crashing very little.
last week i ordered an ati radeon 7000 video card to replace the aging tt128. this is where my troubles began. i first tried to simply switch the two cards. when i went to start up, nothing. after a few hours of various configurations, i finally got a startup screen again, which brings me to where i'm at now (this is a shortened version i know, but it's late and i'm trying to keep it simple as possible ;-)
i have the radeon installed in the same slot as the tt-128 was (#2), the usb/fw is also in it's previous slot and the two cd drives are in on the system scsi cable. the problem is that although i can get the system to recognize the atto card in slot 1 (verified through atto protools) it won't show the connected drive. i should also note at this point a few stumbling blocks i have - the system folder for startup in on the 9gb drive while the 2gb is empty. in my previous config (and i'm not sure why it was like this) i had only the 9gb on the atto card while the other 2gb was on the regular system scsi chain (although i can now see it has a uw connector with a wide adapter). anyway, i call this a stumbling block because i can only boot now when my 9gb is installed on the regular system bus. and when i try flip flopping the drives (9gb on the atto and 2gb on the system) it just won't boot properly (fan starts and hd's spin but no more). arghh! so frustrating because it was working fine before.
i also updated the firmware on the atto card, no change. i checked the scsi termination on both the system bus and atto bus and THINK i have them proper. what else am i missing? i'm thinking it must be some scsi-conflict problem or possible the famous s900 slot issue (although i think it;s not)
any help is appreciated, i'm so frustrated right now! thanks guys. christopher
ps: hope i got everything in here, it's late and i'm exhausted from trying every possible solution i could think of (avoiding having to take it somewhere!)
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 09:15 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:
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.7/14/03 2:06PM:
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?))
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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