Lost Dual Monitors after 800 MHz upgrade |
October, 15, 2002 11:09 AM |
drc |
In addition to the same problems that a lot of other people are talking about, I lost the use of dual monitors when I upgraded to an 800 MHz CPU (Sonnet). (Other info: 9500/ Gig+ of RAM, two external Ultra SCSI drives driven by an Adaptec 2930, an unused Asante 10/100 ethernet card, Orange Micro dual USB/Firewire card.) I've got TwinTurbo 128 & 3dFX Voodoo 5 cards. (Boy can I pick 'em.) The dual monitors work under OS 9 but on the TT the cursor looks like a kind of static-filled box. It's range of movement on the screen is restricted too. When I boot into X the Grey Apple appears on the monitor driven by the 3dFX card (my main monitor, a 19" Sony). It never used to do this. It was the TT driven (17" Sony) monitor that always showed the grey startup screen. At some point this locks up and the blue startup screen appears on the TT monitor (again the reverse of what used to happen). The 3dFX driven screen holds the frozen grey startup screen while the desktop loads on the TT driven monitor. Suggestions would be welcome. |
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RE: Lost Dual Monitors after 800 MHz upgrade |
October, 16, 2002 1:57 AM |
drc |
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Developer: Apple System Profiler will give me everything but a ROM # for the TT card. My card is Revision 1, the Vendor ID is 10e0, & the Device ID is 9128. Strangely the 3dfx card worked fine until I upgraded the CPU. Reinstalling the previous card didn't bring back it's functionality. Even now the results of a verbose reboot are staring at me. Argghhh |
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RE: Lost Dual Monitors after 800 MHz upgrade |
October, 16, 2002 12:10 AM |
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some thoughts: the bootscreen should appear on that device which is given in XPostFacto. After the kernel etc. is loaded, OS X will look up the PCI devices to find a matching KEXT for your video cards. Since the TT is the only one supported it will use this. The TT is supported because it has some type of QuickDraw ROM inside which can be used by the AppleNDRV kext. Seems that the 3dFX card lacks this ROM or the AppleNDRV is only usable with some sort of cards. Within the Darwin Developers newsgroup there where once some people working on a 3dFX driver, but I think they lost interest... |
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RE: Lost Dual Monitors after 800 MHz upgrade |
October, 16, 2002 12:03 AM |
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Sorry can't give you any suggestion. But I am wondering because my TT doesn't work with the 800 MHz G4 card in my Umax S900 neither in 9 nor X. Can you tell me which ROM version your TT has? Thanks! |