Sonnet G4/800 S900 Startup Time etc. |
March, 21, 2003 1:38 PM |
anomia |
I am curious about 9.x start-up times using the G4/800 card in an S900 Umax. I experience, on a cold startup, a delay of about 3 minutes total; literally 2min.s before ANY startup activity begins with the monitor, and the last minute, a show of startup graphics, ie, happt mac, boot screen, ext. loading and finally desktop and volume mounting. This seems an inordinately long time; what is odd too is that if I then, or later, do a restart, it seems normal: the screen comes on immediately and begins regular startup graphics. I have close to a gig of RAM, an 80 gig IDE drive with the Sonnet Trio Card, an orig. ATI Radeon 32mg card and a SCSI and IDE CD and CD-RW drive, respectively. I am wondering if this is a borderline card or this is average behaviour for the G4/800 cards that work well. Thanks. |
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RE: Sonnet G4/800 S900 Startup Time etc. |
March, 22, 2003 2:23 AM |
macman |
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This is exaclty the correct behavior for the memory test. A warm reboot doesn't check the memory, cold boot does. When I cold boot my 8500/8600 machines that have 1GB of RAM, it can take 5 minutes or more before any activity. This can be touchy when booting headless - which I do for a webcam. So, I crash the machine and force a reboot immediately after powerup. Thank goodness X doesn't check the RAM. Otherwise, I'd be going crazy when I rarely panic. Stephen |
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RE: Sonnet G4/800 S900 Startup Time etc. |
March, 21, 2003 3:20 PM |
marcush |
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Hey, you posted this question on dealmac too. Try turning off the starup memory test. As I recall you hold down the command and option keys when you launch the memory control panel. You will see a new menu to toggle the memory test. |
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RE: Sonnet G4/800 S900 Startup Time etc. |
March, 21, 2003 1:55 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Make sure you have a good logic board battery. When the logic board battery is empty then on a cold boot the mac has to identify all the hardware, which takes a while. Once this process is complete, I presume it writes some info into the PRAM and doesn't take as long the next time. The clock and date are the dead give away of the battery being flat. Marty |
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