Re: MDD Boot Problem
Glen, am I correct to assume (by all upgrades without reinstall) that a fresh installation of 10.4.11 is not an option? I'm thinking that the second CPU may cause the problem, as all previous machines (except maybe the 867) seem to be single CPU machines? It's a long shot worth investigating though; I've swapped 10.4 disks between single and dual CPU machines without problems, so you should be able to as well. Can you think of any software/extensions/utilities installed that might stop the MDD booting? Greetings, Eelco. -- 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
Re: MDD Boot Problem
On 12/03/2012 02:03, "glen" wrote: > Thanks, I sincerely appreciate the reply. Before I lay down the bucks for DW > anyone else have other suggestions -glen A similar sort of thing happened to me years ago but in my case it was caused by the extended desktop prefs. My mac thought I had two monitors connected and booted to the plain blue screen of the second display - the menus etc were on an imaginary monitor off stage left. It was caused in my case by a flashed video card which had vga and dvi but no vga through the dvi port and the mac presumed the dvi to be the primary display - but I had no dvi monitor at that time so I was stuck with the vga secondary screen and what became quite a problem - how to open, grab and drag system prefs from a monitor I couldn't see to the one I could and turn on mirroring. Probably not your problem but is the MDD set to the same primary video port as the QS was? Pete -- 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
Re: MDD Boot Problem
- Original Message - > > A similar sort of thing happened to me years ago but in my case it was > caused by the extended desktop prefs. My mac thought I had two monitors > connected and booted to the plain blue screen of the second display - the > menus etc were on an imaginary monitor off stage left. It was caused in my > case by a flashed video card which had vga and dvi but no vga through the > dvi port and the mac presumed the dvi to be the primary display - but I had > no dvi monitor at that time so I was stuck with the vga secondary screen and > what became quite a problem - how to open, grab and drag system prefs from a > monitor I couldn't see to the one I could and turn on mirroring. Probably > not your problem but is the MDD set to the same primary video port as the QS > was? > Humm, that could be the problem. The QuickSliver monitor was attached to the VGA port. The MDD has no VGA port and that same monitor was attached to the MDD DVI port. The monitor is an old Dell with both VGA and DVI ports. Definitely something to play with after work. If that fails a reinstall of 10.4.11 as suggested may be the way to go. Thanks --glen -- 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
