At 9:27 PM +0000 11/6/05, Jason Mayfield-Lewis wrote:
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Hey all,
I think maybe I'm having a video card ROM update problem. Not sure tho...
300-MHz rev 2 B&W, 384 MB RAM, 10 GB IDE HD, DVD-ROM, ZIP
ATI Rage XClaim VR Pro Graphics card.
It runs Mac OS 9.2.2 quite well.
I had Panther on it, temporarily. It worked ok.
Now I've installed a (retail) Tiger on it.
The installation went smoothly then the machine rebooted. It got
to the funky spinning spikey wheel and just sat there, stuck.
So I hit the reset button and held down cmd-V (Verbose Mode). It
blithers all the normally expected stuff, mounts the disk volumes,
etc. Then it finally says:
"ROM ndrv for ATY,XCLAIMVRPro is too old (0xb0e7d770)."
Is that just informational?
Is that actually where the boot is stuck, or is it stuck within the
*next* thing it's supposed to be doing?
Anyone else using this card with Tiger?
Thx,
- Dan.
It may be that Apple forgot to update that kernel extension before
releasing 10.4. A workaround if you can't get round this by any
other means would be to install XPostFacto under OS 9 and boot into
X with the "Use old NDRV" option ticked in XPF. If that doesn't work
your only option might be to get another video card (Rage 128s can
be had very cheap now if you don't have the original card from the
machine knocking around anywhere...)
And if you try either approach then run the updates to
10.4.well.whatever.it.is.then and try your XCLAIMVRPro without XPF.
It's possible later versions fixed it.
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