Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 25, 2002 7:18 AM |
gkphoto |
Hi Folks: Thanks to your responses to my earlier questions, I have my Power Computing PowerWave up and running reliably in OS X and OS 9.2.2. No luck with my Power Computing PowerCenter and OS X (OS 9.2.2 is now running OK, though). Have tried three different scsi cards: Adaptec 2940U, Atto UL2D, and Atto UL3D, plus all other tricks and techniques gleaned from this forum....the machine will not reboot into OS X to run the installer....always boots into OS 9 or simply locks up instead. (Zapping the pram fixes the lock-up and allows rebooting into OS 9) Is the PowerCenter architecture unable to run OS X or am I missing something, perhaps a magic scsi card? The machine is equiped with the same Sonnet 800mhz cpu as the PowerWave, and has a couple of fast Seagate scsi 160 drives. Thanks in advance for your advice...all much appreciated! |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
February, 21, 2003 6:44 AM |
aticusjunk |
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i am having problems installing 10.2 onto my power computing powercenter 120. i have a xlr8 carrier card w/400 mhz g3 & 384 meg of ram, and am using a ati acaimvr video card. I have a usb card and a voodoo3 card, both are pulled. I am using an external scsi yamaha 6x4x16 burner that boots fine. My hard drives are the original 1 gig and a scsi 4gb. 4gb is destination drive. Upon restart, grey new apple screen, text screen with several errors, most seem to be the predicted ones. I end up with a prompt "sh-2.05a#". I have the log from the pref file and i can take a digital pic too. last few lines are (time)mach_init[2]: started with uid=0 (time)init: unrecocgnized flag '-?' (time)ignoring excess arguements root device is mounted read-only filesysem checks skipped (time) sh-2.05a# Thanks for any help Jay |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 30, 2002 12:23 PM |
gkphoto |
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In my experience, the onboard video works erratically with the upgrade card. Seems that OS X doesn't like on board video either. Try it, but if you can't boot, or boot into unsynchronized video, try a pci video board. |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 30, 2002 7:43 AM |
swoup1213 |
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When I installed OSX on my 9500, I used my external SCSI CD burner. It reads 20x, so I used it and I forgot about my internal CD 4x. Installation went flawlessly with the external. I'm considering using the external CD on my PowerCenter 132 (G3/400) when I do install OSX regarding what I've read here and also because the CD rom in the PowerCenter isn't bootable anymore, it was pulled from a Umax S900. Big Question: Can I use on-board video or do I need a video card? |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 29, 2002 10:12 PM |
gkphoto |
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The address for xpft 2.2.5b2 is given in the UL2D thread in this forum. |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 29, 2002 7:58 PM |
msarch |
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Where does one get XPFT 2.2.5b2? I have also got an ATTO card and would like to try it out. |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 28, 2002 8:49 PM |
powderhaus |
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Do you have a stock CDROM? If you do it probably is not supported and will not install. You can use Apple software restore on a clean partition (I just made one extra one at 700mb. But if you have a blank one just use that one, it can not be the same partition as the disk you are going to installing osx on.) Do a sherlock to find apple software restore on you 9 disk and drag it to your desktop and then drop the installer on the icon. Then select the disk you want as your installer disk. I would recommend letting apple software restore format the partition you are going to use. Then eject the CD and select the installer disk in XPF as you would the CD. This is kind of a pain but if your CDROM is unsupported there is not much else besides getting a new cdrom. Good Luck |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 28, 2002 7:29 PM |
swoup1213 |
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I have OSX 10.2.2 installed on my 9500 and it runs tip top. But I also have a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132 with an upgraded G3/400 card and was wondering if I can install OSX on the PowerCenter. The PowerCenter has a 1 gig and a 9 gig internal drives. I would plan on installing OSX on the 9 gig for obvious reasons. Would I need to get a video card to support OSX? I don't want to invest too much money on this PowerCenter so I'm thinking something low level such as an IXMicro UltimateRez card if I need to go that route. Would appreciate any suggestions. |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 27, 2002 3:50 PM |
gkphoto |
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Thanks and congratulations, OS X Guru! Just completed a successful installation onto a clean, Apple-formated hard drive on my PowerCenter (with ATTO UL2D card) using XPFT 2.2.5b2. I wonder if the ATTO fix in 2.2.5b2 will apply to the UL3D card, as well? |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 27, 2002 2:56 PM |
jeglin |
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The only way I got the install done is to use the external SCSI bus. on my Power Tower Pro there in a mobo connector for it; maybe not on the PowerCenter? |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 27, 2002 7:16 AM |
gkphoto |
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Thanks OSX Guru, But I upgraded to a Radeon card when I installed the Sonnet 800mhx cpu, and I have formatted my disks with both the Apple softwear and the Intech hardware. So I am starting to think that its something deeper. |
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RE: Power Computing PowerCenter Difficulties |
November, 26, 2002 2:16 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The "rebooting into Mac OS 9" problem is often caused by the software used to format your boot drive. Reformatting with Apple's Drive Setup or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools sometimes helps. The other thing is that Mac OS X does not support the built-in video on some of the PowerComputing models--I believe yours is among them, but I may be wrong. In that case, you would need a video card to make things work. |