>Terry,
>
>I downloaded Ryan's version 2.2b3 and it WORKS!!!!!
>I was only able to set my Powerforce G3/500 clock speed to 250MHz at the
>50MHz bus prior to this.
>
>Now I can set it the full speed of 500 MHz at the 50MHz bus!!!!
>
>I'm sorry to hear about your card. I hope you can get another one and use
>this lastest release of Xpostfacto 2.2b3.
>
>Norm
>
Hi again,
Many thanks for this - I can only hope that it works for me when my
new card arrives (still waiting to hear from OWC, but their Monday would
only just be starting now)
Looking forward to this - email Ryan & let him know - he will be
very interested. Here's the last email I got from him:
>On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 04:38 PM, Terry Allen wrote:
>
>> In any case, I don't know whether my problem is like others (when
>> the card worked of course :), but I'll describe it & you can see if your
>> fix may help:
>>
>> press power key on keyboard - startup chime sounds - hard drive spins
>> up -
>> small bit of drive activity then just spins - monitor never comes on
>>
>> You may or may not know why, but why does Mac OS 9.1 boot fine with
>> the card set at it's default, but not OSX? Some sort of timing issue
>> that
>> OSX depends on that is read prior to the video being activated?
>
>Yes, that's exactly the problem that version 2.2b3 may well solve. The
>problem is that OS X uses open firmware in the boot process to access
>the drive (OS 9 does not). And the open firmware drivers are timing
>sensitive, and sometimes the upgrade cards are too fast for them. But
>version 2.2b3 will be able to slow down the CPU for this stage of the
>boot process, which seems to help.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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