thanks so much to paul and will for the help ;-) i've been running so smooth in os-x for the past 6 months that i forgot about the small little quirks that make us love our S900s so much ;-) in other words, i did forget about having to use xpostfacto to switch startup os-x disks. then on top of that, i inadvertently put the pram battery in upside down the first time i tried the CUDA reset so thought it wasn't going to work ;-) anyway, after i figured everything out, i got back up and running, switched the startup over to the ATA card and am quite happy with the way everything is running.
any newpowr g4 owners out there? if so, what have people found to be the best settings for CPU director? i'm currently using 2:1 ratio, no speculative processing, and power management on. thanks again! .christopher On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:52:15 -0700, Will S wrote: >> From: zoetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:06:45 -0500 hi - so i ordered and successfully installed the SIIG card into my S900 G4/450 with an attached WD 30GB HD. i rebooted and OS-X (jaguar 10.2.8) saw the card and drive no problem. although strange that it sees the card and drive as SCSI (anyone know why?) I reformatted the drive with disk utility and then carbon-copy-cloned my OS-X over to it. Once finished I selected it as startup in the control panel and rebooted. > Your trying to boot into OSX using startup control panel to choice your hard disk? If so a major no no with OSX use on an Old World machine.You'll end up with the "Black Screen of Death" ( which it sounds like you have later in this post) You need to use XPFacto to choice the disk to boot into for OSX. All the Acard made cards (which includes the SGII card) see the drives as SCSI drives. One advantage is it by passes the need to install OSX in the first 8GB of the hard drive. The Sonnet ATA cards(made by FirmTek with Promise chips) the 100 & 133 MHz cards see the drives as ide and suffer from the 8GB limit. >> this is where the problem began. although i chose it in the control panel, it still booted off the old SCSI drive. tried a few times to no avail. then i searched around online a bit and found something about 'blessing' a system folder, which i tried through the terminal, no luck. then i found somewhere that on our machines, you must reformat through OS-9's disk utility program, which i remembered that i did with the scsi in order to load OS-X on the machine (with the help of xpostfacto). so i rebooted on a OS-9.1 CD i had and reformatted the drive. then chose back the SCSI OS-X drive to boot from (so that i could clone again) and rebooted. > This is correct you should format the drive in OS 9.x Some have said that it works to use Disk utilities in OSX checking the include OS 9 drivers box. But you then need to boot into OS9.x and erase the drive in the finder before installing. Easier and a sure thing to format in OS 9. >> now it won't boot, it just hangs in the startup and the monitor isn't even receiving a signal. i tried inserting the 9.1 CD and holding C to boot from but doens't work. strange too was that i couldn;t even turn it off, when i tried to power down it would just start back up. so i reset the CUDA switch inside, which at least allowed me to power down but no help in booting up. > This is the famous "Black Screen of Death" I came close to buying a new machine when it happened to me in the early days of OSX. It often happens when choosing the OSX hard drive with the startup control panel rather then using XPFact. Also trying to directly boot the OSX CD for install rather then using XPFacto will cause it every time. Thankfully the fix is while not painless fairly easy. You need to remove the battery and unplug the machine or flip the power strip switch so the machine isn't receiving any power. 12-15 min is likely enough time. You then hold down the cuda switch for at least 30 sec to a min. put the battery back in and plug the machine in. Push the cuda button for good luck and away you go. The cuda button is at the back bottom corner of the motherboard. The battery is nearly the front in the middle between the cpu and first RAM slot. Let me know if you need more info. Best of luck Will S >> can anyone help with an idea of what happened? the only thing i can think that i even touched on the original OS-X drive was running disk repair while in 9. was that it? thanks much in advance. christopher ps: the kicker is that i'm sending my pismo in to daystar in a few hours (to upgrade to a g4! ;-) and was relying on my s900 to get me through the weekend. > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
