On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 05:33 PM, Tim Maloney wrote:
> I have a Power Computing Powercenter 132 with a 300 G3 upgrade card, 304 > megs ram,8 meg IMS video card. VSY ATA/66 ATA card with Western Digital > 30 > gig 5400 rpm drive. e2x Apple rom ATA cdrom, 4x Sony stock SCSI cdrom. > > Two issues. One is that the scsi cdrom no longer mounts when a disk is > installed. I have tried different terminated, unterminated, I've moved > those > little black things to every pin and tried it with no pins covered, > nothing. > However, it boots from an os9 cd when there is one in it at boot time. > > The ATA cdrom is not bootable. > > Second issue is that once OSX is installed, the beachball that appears > in > the left hand corner at boot time, stays there after the mouse appears. > SO I have a spinning beachball stationary in the left corner where it > first > appears, AND a separate mouse that works normally. Can't help on the CD Rom issue, mine works fine. I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/400 upgrade card. I'm running OS X 10.1.5 using XpOSFacto. From the original installation I have always had the extra SBOD in the upper left hand corner, partially covering the Apple menu. Does not affect any operations. I was told originally by a friend at Apple, that upgrading to 10.1.4 would cure it. Nope, nor 10.1.5. You can get rid of it by booting into the verbose mode. I have queried Ryan Remple about it and there's no good idea what causes it. It's been reported previously, but not consistently. One suggestion is a possible issue with the video card? (I'm still running the original tt128) but ti hasn't been enough of a problem to justify trying another video card. Other than the extra "Spinning Beachball of Doom", I am very pleased with X on this machine. My CD Rom is a Teac 16 x as this unit originally shipped with the 8x Phillips, which had a bunch of problems. Power Computing replaced with the Teac under warranty and it's been working fine ever since. The extra SBOD is good for freaking out co-workers, so it has some use. <G> My current guess is a corrupted font file somewhere. I intend to explore that, just haven't got around to it yet. Jack Russell -- 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
