Radeon 7000 freezes |
April, 30, 2003 1:05 PM |
smurray11 |
I just installed a the Mac Edition ATI card and it's a nightmare. In OS 9 it only loaded in 9.1. It kept giving me a "blue screen" in 9.2.2 with extensions on or off after loading and getting to the desktop. I had reinstalled the older July ATI drivers (was running the October drivers previously with no problems), flashed the ROM, the works, and still the same garbage. Finally I managed to get back to my older Nexus card, got things settled (totally deleted Oct. drivers, flashed back to orig ROM, then up to 2.08 again), reinstalled the card, and it finally booted. I then ran XPF with the Radeon card being the output... and now at the Apple logo I get a garbled screen, and it won't boot back into OS 9 holding down the option key like it normally does. I pulled the PRAM battery for 24 hrs., and still same junk, so I'm probably going to have to pull the harddrive and use my firewire interface to reformat it or something. This card bites. After now reading the older Radeon card is faster, I want to kill someone. (Hi OWC and your 15% restocking fee) Anyway, my stats are PTP 225 running XLR8 450, 512 FP RAM, 80 G Maxtor on Sonnet ATA 66 in 4th PCI slot. Radeon 7K in 1st slot, Nexus in 2nd (was in first before) XLR8 Firewire card in 6th slot. I've been running Jaguar and 9,2,2 flawlessly with previous hardware and regret screwing with a good thing. Any advice would be appreciated. (and yes I hit the cuda switch on install) Thanks. |
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RE: Radeon 7000 freezes |
May, 01, 2003 3:08 PM |
marcush |
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I'm using a Zynx 10/100 card. They were an Apple OEM provider at one point so the card works with the built-in drivers in both OSX and OS9. I'm not sure you would really see any download boost. The WAN and LAN ports on routers and cable/DSL modems are still 10baseT. A 10/100 card only shows a boost on an internal network. |
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RE: Radeon 7000 freezes |
April, 30, 2003 10:02 PM |
smurray11 |
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Well switching the PCI slots got it to boot back to OS 9. I still can't get the card to work with any version of the ATI drivers, but got it booted into OS X, got PCI extreme running, and it's smooth. Thanks for the PCI slot facts... I was under the impression before that the 1st and 4th were the "power" slots for video and Bus cards. I still am pretty annoyed with this card, but probably because I would have been fine with my old Nexus card. Waste of money I guess. By the way, do you have a asante fast ethernet card installed on your tower? Since I'm pretty much using my PTP just for Hotline and WinMX (via Virtual PC) access, I was hoping that would give it a download speed boost. Thanks again I appreciate it. |
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RE: Radeon 7000 freezes |
April, 30, 2003 1:57 PM |
marcush |
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Try putting the Radeon in the 6th slot. That is the factory slot for graphics cards. I have a Power Tower Pro 225 also but with a Sonnet G4/800, 1GB RAM, Sonnet ATA/100 card. I'm running 10.2.5. I have the older Radeon Mac Edition (non 7k) card. I have it in the bottom slot but find it also works well in the 3rd PCI slot. You also might find that the firewire card will work better in the 2nd or 3rd slot. I have my Sonnet card in the 1st slot. Bus mastering cards like the Sonnet card and, I believe, Firewire cards perform best when they are closest to the PCI bus. This means the first or second slot in each PCI bank. I have a Ratoc Firewire/USB2.0 card. It is in the 2nd PCI slot. This has been a reliable and stable configuration for over a year now. |
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