On Nov. 6,03 Darwin Sison wrote: > As to question #1, I am trying to reinstall X to the same hardrive that 9.1 > is on. It's a Western Digital 80 gig Ultra-ATA 100 connected to the Acard > ata controller. OS X > > #2. I have since wiped out my second hardrive (scsi) of 2 gigs. A long time > ago, I had installed X to it using the old G3 card. Again, with the new G4, > XPostFacto 2.2.5, throttle to 8, input as keyboard, output as video, I still > have been able to get to install. I did use 9.1's drive setup to format. > > #3. XLR8 speed control for OS 9 has been installed the WD hardrive before > installing the upgrade card. However, there was no software for X with the > CD the upgrade card came with. I am thinking that this may be an issue > > #4. 9.1 is still on the WD hardrive. It was a clean install. > > I will retry to install by removing all uneccessary pci cards and scsi > devices again to see if it will work better. I am even thinking of setting > the dip switches to a slower cpu speed. I am hoping that this G4's stock 450 > speed is not the problem by stressing the RAM (OWC 128's) as mentioned by > Will S. I may try to replace the G4 card back with the G3 and try getting > the XLR8 speed control for X after a successful reinstall of X before > putting back the G4. > > -Darwin >
Hi Darwin, OK now here is what I see. I have two CD's for XLR8 upgrade cards. One came with my G3 MaCh Carrier card from the eBay seller. It was an original XLR8 CD in a New box. On that CD is the Mac OS X software (XMSC 2.6.1 OS X pkg. for the MaCh Carrier G4 MPe as well as the software for the MaCh Carrier G4 SSE. along with a lot of other things and Install guides etc. I would be more than happy to burn you a copy or send in a sit by email or whatever. I probably could put it in a ZIP file and upload it to a folder I have on one of my web site that you go to and download it. OK we are on the same ground because I am using bought a 80 GB WD and a 80 GB Seagate ATA HD drive. Before I started the install I made sure that the only PCI cards that were in the S-900 were the video card and the two ATA cards. I do not not have a SCSI CD-ROM in the tower. I bought a 24x Apple ATA drive on Ebay. I have 2 -128mb dimms and 2 - 64mb dimms in the machine at the present and intend to replace the 64mb dimms with at least two 128mb dimms. As I mentioned I cut the CPU speed on my 10x G3 back down from 500Mhz to 450Mhz but left the throttle set at 0. Now it might be worth trying to install with the G3 and see what happens. Now I went over the notes that Ryan had about the install etc. and problems. I am going to suggest suggest that you do one of two things. First is to check your ram with Tech Tool . I did that to make sure they were running fine and had no failures, I did them one at a time. Now next thing you could try is to de-interleave the ram. Remove one so that they don't have a match in A1 and B1 ram slot etc. Now which version of X are you trying to install? Is it a retail CD? ( You may contact me by email in regard to this question) I see that you sid that you could get back up in 9.12 again, which means that the process did not get very far since when X is installed it will de-bless the 9.1 system folder. If you are using a SCSI CD-ROM make absolutely sure that it is the last item on the SCSI ribbon cable that it is terminated. Check these things and ideas out and let us know how it goes. I am very :) happy with the way my OSX 10.2.8 machine is performing having been using 9.1 for the last 2 years. It boots faster than my other S-900 running 9.2.2. I do not play any games on the machine at present since I am still using the IMS Micro Twin Turbo 128-8 video card. I will be looking into flashing a Radeon card a little later on. Richard B. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
