umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 26, 2003 7:29 AM |
davidjo |
I have had no luck trying to get OS X to load on my S900 I took out the firewire / usb card. reclocked the powerlogix powerforce G3 500 processor to 350[was overclocked to 556]. I get as far as a restart and then a funny Black and white striped screen .... with reboot r /continue c at the bottom ...I have waited up to 45 minutes for something else to happen? any suggestions??? Thanks!! Dave |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
September, 13, 2003 8:59 PM |
powderhaus |
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you have to have a cdrom with apple rom, most clones did not come with one |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
September, 13, 2003 6:49 AM |
ctwelsh |
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to boot from the cd on the Umax s900 you have to use the key combination (Command,Option,Shift,Delete) |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
July, 06, 2003 6:08 PM |
powderhaus |
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If you understand my first post you will not need to buy a new CD rom drive but may want to because yours will not play audio CDs. His card is a 500mhz that was taken down to 350 to install OSX, so put it back to 500 and use the throttle menu to change the CPU speed. |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
July, 03, 2003 10:14 PM |
bondtrails |
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Are you using the stock Twin Turbo 8meg card? If so, that explains your striped screen (I had the same issue until I got an ATI Rage 128 card). Also, make sure your boot disk is on the Umax native SCSI line, id 0. You only need about 2 gig so get on ebay and buy a cheap 4 gig drive and install OS X on it. You can use your larger drives as your main storage. Also, don't overclock your CPU. Keep it at 350Mhz, not the 500+Mhz. Play with the throttle values in XPostFacto--I had to play with it for a few iterations until I got it to work. Finally, if you are using the stock CD ROM drive, then you can't boot from the drive because it doesn't have the apple rom. You need a Matshita 504 CD Drive (also Panasonic), this model has the apple rom. Good luck!! --Bondster!! |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 30, 2003 1:30 PM |
jmccown |
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Any chance you specified UFS as the install partition type? I got the "funny black and white screen" pretty frequently until I got the first partition < 8GB and HFS+ .... of course things were pretty convoluted during the process so causation is hard to prove ;-) -Jon |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 28, 2003 4:21 PM |
powderhaus |
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Your SCSI card may be incompatible with XPF/OSX so you may have to try and remove the card and attach the drive that are on it to the normal scsi bus. you will see you hard drive connect to the Jackhammer card by a scsi ribbon cable. you will also see a cable that looks a lot disconnect like it but leads to the motherboard and not the PCI slot. You want to disconnect the drives from the cable that connects to the PCI card and then take the cable that connects to the motherboard and connect it to the drives. you will want to keep the drive connected in the same order (one drive will be closest the the card while others will get farther away). You want to do this so you don't mix up any SCSI termination/identification settings, and they can be a hassle. Good Luck! Jim |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 28, 2003 2:46 PM |
davidjo |
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Marty ? you just went over my [photographer] head... I know very little about computers.....please explain ....sorry for being so duh ...its all kind of unreal to me in the first place...every piece of info that finally attaches upstairs is very helpful. Thanks! Dave |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 28, 2003 2:45 PM |
davidjo |
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Marty ? you just went over my [photographer] head... I know very little about computers.....please explain ....sorry for being so duh ...its all kind of unreal to me in the first place...every piece of info that finally attaches upstairs is very helpful. Thanks! Dave |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 28, 2003 1:17 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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I don't know that the jackhammer SCSI card will work. I don't recall ever seeing a positive report of one with XPF... If you can try moving the boot drive onto the 10Mbit/sec internal bus, this will give you a chance to see if the Install is good or not. Marty |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 28, 2003 12:36 PM |
davidjo |
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Thanks Jim ...I did indeed have to move / configure cards around until I got the G3 card to work ...will shift a few cards around and give it a shot !! Dave |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 27, 2003 11:04 PM |
powderhaus |
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on the S900 there is 6 PCI slots but, sadly, most cards don't work in the lower, i think (i have a J700 wich is the same thing but it does not have the 2nd processor slot soldered on nor the extra 2 PCI slots, but every thing else is identical, so i am not sure if it is the lower or upper), 4 slots while running in OSX. This is because they use a non-Apple PCI controler, while the other 2 do. so you can usually only have 2 cards installed at a time, this includes the video card. i also found that the video card must be placed in the left slot (J700 is a desktop, not a tower) and the other card is in the right of the 2 working slots. Are you booting in verbose mode? If not check it under the advanced menu, it may display some more text. Good Luck! Jim |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 27, 2003 9:44 PM |
davidjo |
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nothing happens when I hit the c key / I will try the rethrottling I did try that earlier and got the same werd ass screen. |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 27, 2003 9:40 PM |
davidjo |
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Thanks to all!! The scsi card is a Jackhammer 1020v1, not sure what video card? [what came with the s900] running 720 mb ram booting OS 9.1off a 2.1 gig hard drive wanting to load OSX on its own seperate 9 gig drive. |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 27, 2003 3:04 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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What kind of boot drive setup do you have? I have seen the exact behaviour you describe on a B/W G3 with the Siig Ultra 133 ATA card hooked to a new 80G Deskstar. Siig has yet to respond to my complaint. Note the B/W G3 is supported too, so XPF isn't even a part of the issue. I have had best luck with faster SCSI PCI cards for my boot drive setup. Like the ATTO Express PCI PSC or Adaptec 29160N. These seem more reliable to me then the ATA cards. Marty |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 27, 2003 10:12 AM |
worldalex |
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Afer OS X is installed, XPostfacto does not always reload the required kernel extensions, which the OS X install overwrites. A boot into 9 and using XPostFacto to reinstall same is a good work around Actually I haven't had this problem in a while, but . . . |
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RE: umax S900 still won't load X |
June, 26, 2003 1:37 PM |
powderhaus |
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if you hit "c" does anything happen? i was going to tell you to use apple software restore to copy the X installer CD to a hard drive partition because the CDROMs that came with j700 and S900 (i know the J700 but not 100% about the S900, but i would assume becasue they are the same computer, basicly) do not boot. but you problem sounds different, i would get to the screen that would say waiting for root device. i would also keep the G3 clocked at 500 and not 350, if you want to scale that down use the throttle control menu in XPF. (1 is most l;ike your currnet system and 24 is the slowest) what else do you have for hardware, Video card, ram... |