One thing I learned about this particular Mac (a G4 733 DA) in the process of taking it all apart and putting it back together again: the OS-X install disk (for 10.2) will not boot if the video card that runs the second monitor in installed.
It never fails: if that card is installed, trying to boot from the Install disk brings up the Green Screen of Kernel Panic (with the message in five languages that says "You must restart your Mac"), and then I have to force a restart.
As soon as that card is pulled, the OS-X install disk boots normally. Is that weird? It's a Radeon card with 32 megs of V-RAM that I bought new a couple of years ago when I was running OS-9.
I don't see any other ill effects from having that video card in there; in fact I've run a second monitor with OS-X for about seven months with it.
So, I guess I just have to remember that anytime I need to install OS-X again, I have to open up the Mac and pull the PCI video card.
Is this something unusual, or has anyone seen this problem before? I don't suppose there's any fix, other than getting a newer card that plays nice with X?
Tom
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