My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 2:14 PM |
esmith |
Last night I tried to install 10.2 and the thing will not boot at all now.... I tried to do a PRAM reset with cmd-opt-P-R but that did not work, Left if overnight with power disconnected and pushed the CUDA button Still NO GO... HELP... |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 10:53 PM |
esmith |
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I got out my old ixmicro card, stuck it into the last slot, after hitting CUDA a few times... Problem solved... We need something to fix this problem. Thanks to all who helped |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 8:27 PM |
powderhaus |
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Are you sure? turn your speakers up. with an upgrade card you may just get a short half chime 4 times. the screen should still be black but you will hear the chimes. you hold them down just after restart. |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 5:02 PM |
esmith |
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I cannot even get to the point where the computer will permit me to do the command-option PR routine... |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 4:52 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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I found my powerlogix g4/450 card came with a floppy (yes a floppy) that get me out of that mode. So, I use the command-option PR thing, wait to here it reset 4 times, then pop in the special floppy (which only works with PL upgrades), and then the machine restarts from the floppy, and voila! video comes back. Man this is a big pain, and the #1 current issue with OSX on unsupported macs at this time IMHO. I am so sick of swapping all the hardware around just to get my display back. Hopefully the floppy will make it easier for me in future. Marty PS Good luck! I have a PTP and a powerwave, both running 10.2, although it seems like there is a severe bug relating to audio. |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 2:54 PM |
esmith |
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This is my setup Power Tower Pro 400 mhz G3 640 ram 16 gig SCSI and SCSI CD ROM connected to external plug (not the "fast SCSI" plug. 40 gig HD and CD ROM connected to ata 66 card with the new bios. (2nd PCI Slot IDE Card) RAGE 128 card (Apple Logo) (1st PCI slot) What PRAM restore disk are you talking about. Asante Ethernet Card (last PCI Slot) |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 2:29 PM |
powderhaus |
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with my sonnet card i had to reset the pram with the keyboard then the disk. i dont know why and the tech support guy did not know why. |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 2:26 PM |
powderhaus |
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if you have a prossesor upgrade card your going to use the pram restore disk. if that does not work take out the Pram battery overnight. it probably will still take 10-15 restarts after that but it should work then |
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RE: My Power Tower Pro will not boot AT ALL |
September, 16, 2002 2:21 PM |
marcush |
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Do you have a G4 card installed? I ran into this problem with my Power Tower Pro too, though not due to the Jaguar install. Read the "800Mhz" thread. In short, if the machine stays at a black screen and does not boot and you have a G4 card installed, then you need to restore the contents of your machine's NVRAM. XLR8's install CD has a recovery disk image and some Sonnet G4's come with a floppy disk for this purpose too. Unfortunately, my Sonnet G4 800 did not come with one so I called tech support and had them email the disk image to me. If you are dealing with Sonnet reference trouble ticket #18015. You might have to move your video card to a different slot or try a different card, and you might have to install a SCSI drive if you are using IDE drive primarilly, but the recovery disk does work. |