ATI 7000 question |
December, 16, 2002 7:33 AM |
jonck |
Hi, I have recently installed an ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card and I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of the spinning beach ball in the top left of my screen. I know of the trick to start up in verbose mode, but this is just as bad, since in verbose mode I keep getting these black system messages in my screen. At first they're not so bad, but after a while the messages appear at the very bottom of my screen and "push" the rest of my screen upwards. The only way to correct my screen again then is by draggin a window all over the screen which leaves a trail of correct display. Thus, I would prefer to be neither in verbose mode, nor start up normally and get the spinning beach ball in the top left of my screen all the time. Does anyone know of any tricks to solve this? I was thinking that one option might be to start up in verbose mode and once the system is booted to disable the verbose messages, except that I don't know whether it's possible to stop the verbose messages in any way once booted. Thanks for any help! Jonck |
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RE: ATI 7000 question |
December, 18, 2002 5:42 AM |
jonck |
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Ok, got it. Thanks a lot for your help, Jonck |
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RE: ATI 7000 question |
December, 17, 2002 8:27 PM |
geo4u911 |
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Jonck, don't do anything unless you change your input or output devices, then set it to the new device. You may want to know that on the Radeon 7000 the ati "b" device is for a digital display. |
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RE: ATI 7000 question |
December, 17, 2002 6:22 PM |
jonck |
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Woohooo!! Three cheers for geo4u911!!! Thanks man, it worked :-) One more question please, do I keep the settings of XPF of input-device--> keyboard and output-device---> ati "a", or do I set these back to none? Thanks very much, Jonck |
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RE: ATI 7000 question |
December, 17, 2002 1:37 PM |
geo4u911 |
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Man you guys are making something simple hard. Boot into OS9, From control panels open Xpostfacto. From the top pulldown menu bar find input device select keyboard then find output device anb select ati "a". Check reinstall extentions and boot into X. No beachball. |
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RE: ATI 7000 question |
December, 17, 2002 4:44 AM |
jonck |
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I am using OS X 10.1.5, I am a bit reluctant to upgrade because of the steep ugrade charge by Apple to go to 10.1.2. Untill now 10.1.5 has been working fine for me, except maybe the spinning beach ball/verbose mode thingy. I tried taking out some RAM and running the machine with 256 MB. I still got the continuous spinning beach ball in the top left of my screen and my machine was quite a bit slower :-) (I currently have 832 MB of RAM in my computer) So it didn't work, but thanks for your suggestions nonetheless :-) Does anyone else know of anything that could solve my little problem? Thanks, Jonck |
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RE: ATI 7000 question |
December, 16, 2002 6:28 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Try changing your installed RAM to 256M as a test.... I saw this with 768M in one machine. Make sure your using 2.24 or later, upgrade your OSX if it's not latest. I use a radeon PCI without this in my Powerwave G4/420 512M (52.5 Mhz bus speed UNDERCLOCK from 450 powerlogix)10.2.2. Marty |