Hi, Listers.
I am currently deep in one of the worst cases of "black screen of
death" I've ever experienced. I'm at the end of my rope. Here is my
set up:
S900 with PowerLogix G3/500 (2:1 ratio for 250 MHz speed on 1 MB cache)
720 MB RAM
Original Matshita CR-506 CD drive
2 GB WDIGTL on internal SCSI (this has OS 9.1)
40 GB Maxtor on SIIG ATA/133 (Tiger on 25 GB ; Panther+0S 9.2.2
Classic on 13 GB)
Numerous devices chained to external SCSI
PCI:
1: ATI Radeon 7000 32 MB (with 17" Optiquest attached)
2: free
3: SIIG ATA/133
4. OWC Firewire card
5. free
6. USB card
With my PowerLogix card in, I can't even get to a chime. With the old
604e, I can boot into OS 9.1. I've experienced this before, but
usually after a hardware change. This happened after a software
change. I had successfully installed Tiger on my main volume using
XPostFacto 4.0b5. Things were going well. The system was zippy and I
had finished cleanup, including running DiskWarrior on both my OS X
volumes and backing them up with Retrospect. I had rebooted into
various volumes using XPF with no problems. This same hardware setup
has been running fine for many months. I ran for hours under my new
Tiger.
Then I decided to temp fate. Fate bit back!! I decided to install
Tiger on my rescue volume on an external FireWire. I booted OK to the
DVD and had finished the install and was rebooting for the
post-install cleanup. I expected I'd maybe boot back into 9.1 and
then have to use XPF to get to the OS X volume on the FW. But instead
I got the black screen.
Over the last three days, I've tried everything I'd heard about and
could find in my archives of this list. At this point I have all PCI
cards except the video out. All RAM chips have been removed. I've
removed the battery; left the system powered off over night twice;
CUDA'd until I'm blue in the face. With the old CPU card I can zap
pram and have done so up to five or six times in a row, including
before the first chime. As I recall, leaving the battery out should
really accomplish the same thing.
As I said, with the PowerLogix card in, I can't get to even one
chime; so I can't zap the pram with it in. It seems like the hard
drive powers up and then nothing else happens. After a second or two
I hear no more activity. I've left the machine in this state for
hours and never seen any sign that anything more is going to happen.
The old 604e card seems to reliably boot all the way up.
It's hard to believe a card or my RAM suddenly went bad when it had
been running so well before the last Tiger install attempt. Can any
of you offer any advice on other ways to reset whatever is holding up
the system from proceeding through the first few steps of a reboot.
Help!!!!
Thanks,
Gary
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