Phillip, I have a PowerTower Pro with a XLR8 G3 400 overclocked to 450 as well. Our "Macs" are pretty similar both being based on the PowerMac 9500 Tsunami motherboard. This Mobo does not have built in video and requires that a PCI slot be used for video. This actually works better for installing OS X since onboard video seems to cause many folks numerous problems. One difference between our machines is in the way UMAX implemented the lower three PCI slots. They used a bridge chip instead of a second Bandit controller. This is good for you as you should not have any issues if you decide to upgrade to a G4.
About your install. Of the 4 video cards I have direct experience with two of them, the TT128 & the Ultimate Rez. These both work without a hitch on this motherboard design, in fact I am using the Ultimate Rez right now. They are not accelerated however. I am not fimilar with the Formac Pro 3 but I do know that others have reported that the Radeon works correctly and is accelerated with X in our machines. So I would suggest using the Radeon. I have 640MB of interleaved RAM and have had NO problems at all. Where I have run into the most problems is with SCSI. OS X is VERY picky about SCSI being correctly terminated. For example I had a termination problem that I was unaware of when I first started installing X. 9 had been perfectly stable, no problems but when I tried to install X all I would get was the broken system folder icon you describe. I finally tracked it down to my CD-ROM not being terminated from the factory. All this because the documentation for the drive itself was wrong. Anyway, make sure that your SCSI chain is correctly terminated. My understanding is that you never were able to boot from the X Install CD. Is this correct? I assume that the process that you followed is: Boot into 9. Format X target drive with Drive Setup Mount OS X Install CD Run XPosFacto 2.11 Select OS X Install CD as Boot volume Select X target drive as Install volume Click install (files will be copied and the computer will reboot) You get a Happy Mac for a minute or two and then see the broken system folder icon. You ctl-apple-power button to reboot and hold down option to get back to 9. Once you see the broken system folder in X you can stop waited because X has given up or is stuck in an infinite loop. My suggestion is to hold down apple-V until you see the Happy Mac on boot into X. This will boot into Verbose mode for you to see where X is getting hung. Do this and take note of what is happening. If you post were you are getting hung I may be able to make another suggestion. Britney On 3/21/02 7:41 PM, "Phillip L. Meza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Listers, I'm trying to install OSX version 10.1 on my Umax S900 > and have failed over and over. I can't seem to figure what I'm doing > wrong. I'll try to give as much detail as I can...I am presently > running OS9.1, XLR8 G3 400MHZ (overclocked to 450), I have ram slots > filled w/128mb sticks (1gig) interleaved . 3 IDE drives WD 20 gig 5 > partitions & 1 IBM 20 gig 5 partitions add'l WD 2gig Slaved and not > partitioned... all drives are formatted HFS Extended (Used either > Intech Speedtools or Apple Setup Utility) . I have 4 Video cards on > hand, a twin turbo (8), Ultimate REZ, Formac Pro 3, ATI Radeon Mac > Edition. > > PCI Slots: During installs... > 1. Video Card (Twin Turbo or ATI) > 2. Sonnet Tempo ATA 66 > 3. Adaptec USB Card ...Slots 4, 5, 6 empty. > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
