Kevin Willis wrote: > I just installed a ATI Xclaim card in my 8500. I hooked the monitor up >to the card and fired it up. I get the "smiling Mac" and the "OS starting" >screen. But, when it finishes booting, the control strip and all the icons >are gone. They seem to be off to the left of the screen out of sight. > I tried "arranging the monitors" in the control panel (I only have one >monitor hooked up). > I even hooked up another monitor but I still had no menu bar or icons. > When I pull the card out and hook it up to the onboard monitor connector >it works fine. > What do I need to do to get this card to work? > > > > I think you can get around this by putting an alias of Monitors & Sound on your desktop in the lower left corner. I think your resolution is too big for the monitor, and so you are seeing the middle of your acrage. If that doesn't work, you could switch down to 640x480 with the onboard video, then try switching to the ATI.
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