Black Screen Blues |
January, 19, 2003 4:32 PM |
mp |
Specs: PowerTower 180e / 2GB hard disc Sonnet Crescendo G3 PCI Card / 400MHz Tango Firewire/USB RAM: 320MB OS 9.1 I have reformatted the hard disc to the extended HFS. I have installed and opened the Xpostfacto program followed the instructions (3 times) and at the point where it is supposed to boot from the OSX (10.1) disc I get a black screen and nothing seems to happen. HEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPP!!! |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 21, 2003 12:02 PM |
powderhaus |
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in the menu bar in Xpostfacto there should be a menu called open firmware. Under it is input device and out put device. set the output device to your video card and the input (if you want to(it just alows you to type while in verbose mode as far as i can tell-pointless)). This may at least display something. |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 21, 2003 9:25 AM |
mp |
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to powerderhaus. . . Yes I can boot on a CD (the 9.1 /G4 software CD that actually came with my G4 laptop). The computer sounds like its booting when I do the Xpostfacto thing but then I get the black screen and activity seems to stop. What is the "video card in the open firmware" you are referring to? |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 20, 2003 6:08 PM |
ken882 |
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FWIW, I finally got my UMAX J700 to install OS X (still some freezing problems, though) using Sonnet's installer. I too was getting the black screen until I received a suggestion here that I should relocate the video card to another slot, which solved the problem. Sonnet also told me that the Radeon 7000 Mac Edition card that I was using wouldn't work for the install, so I used the original J700 video card to do the install, then upgraded the ATI driver software after the OS X install. I know that my configuration is different than yours, but perhaps moving your video card or using a different one might help. |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 20, 2003 11:00 AM |
powderhaus |
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With the CD rive, Have you ever been able to boot on a CD? I have never been able to boot off of a CD except the 8.1 CD that came with the computer. I have always had 2 bootable drives, so i would just boot into the other and install. but with 10 you have to, so you may have to put the CD on a hard drive/partion. does it sound like the computer is booting? have you selected you video card in the open firmware menu? (that may help) Good Luck! |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 20, 2003 10:38 AM |
mp |
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Thanks mojoecups and powderhaus. I formated the drive with Drive Setup from a 9.1 CD. I have subsequently discovered that (according to Sonnet) I may need to update the video card on this clone. I'm thinking that might be giving me the black screen. I will also try starting Xpostfacto from the 9.1 bootup. As far as the CD drive goes, I had to install CD ROM Toolkit (originally shipped with the PowerTower) in order to have more consistant mounting of CDs. |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 20, 2003 2:26 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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SCSI termination can also be the issue. 10.x is much pickier then any previous version of macOS and sometimes seems like the SCSI is just plain WHACKED. Marty |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 20, 2003 2:25 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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How did you format the target drive? If possible boot from a 9.1 CD and format the drive from that and then start Xpostfacto from there too... There are problems with some third party formats and maybe even with Drive Setups newer then 9.1.... Good Luck, Marty |
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RE: Black Screen Blues |
January, 19, 2003 5:06 PM |
powderhaus |
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Do you have the origanal CDROM drive? Some of the older CD drives on clones can creat problems when istalling. There is a work around to this. If you have 2 hard drives you can use the Apple Software Restore program to copy the installer cd to the extra Hard drive. If you do not have the extra hard drive then you will have to creat a new partition of your main hard drive. (Make it as close to the size of the cd as possable.) Before you go about doing that, select the verbose mode option in XPF (it is in the advanced menu). this may give you an error instead of the black screen. Good Luck! |