By "home page", I mean my "desktop"... I'm the only user on this computer, so I don't log in.
The Apple person said the the graphics card is the last thing to "boot up" ... I'm not sure that's the term he used, but he said that's why the blue screen is taking so long. It wouldn't hurt to change out the cards and see how it behaves. I think that using the utility you mentioned could be a good idea, but I could possibly get myself in a situation I can't interpret. The Apple Genius Bar will let you bring in any Apple device, they just won't "repair" anything that's too old. They have been very helpful over the years. Thanks for your thoughts, Mira On 10/24/15, NODEraser <nodera...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:54 PM, mkehoe <mirake...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The Apple genius bar person was pretty sure that the video card on the >> 1.25 >> dual G4 is causing the symptoms I've been having: long time on the solid >> blue screen before my home page appears, etc. > > They still provide support at the Genius Bar for PowerPC products? > That's pretty surprising. When you say "home page", I assume you're > talking about the login screen when booting? I don't see how your > graphics card could affect that unless there's something going on with > hardware identification/initialization that is causing a delay. You > could use a utility like XPostFacto to enter verbose mode on startup > and look at any messages that stall for a while. > > While there is a difference between those two cards (the 9000 is a > level or two higher than the MX 4 in terms of performance, depending > on the specific model of card) there shouldn't be any noticeable > difference in OS X itself, unless you're doing some gaming or running > a really high resolution. > > -- > [Greg Bennett] > -Independent Carpenter, Electrician & Lighting Designer > -Purveyor of Classic Apple & Macintosh Gear > http://www.hsiprodsvcs.com/ > http://www.macshack.us/ > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/g3-5-list/cVU18wSNV7c/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
