From: "Dan Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:47:52 -0500
OS X 10.3 Installation was a nightmare at first, but it turned out that all of my problems were due to the SCSI card. I was having problems booting the X install CD, and when I managed to get it to install once, it would never re-boot into X. It eventually would not even boot into 9.2. After I removed the SCSI card, everything went just fine.
The Adaptec SCSI card conversion apparently does not work, or I'm doing something else wrong. The flash utility runs fine, and running it a second time shows the card as having the new 4.1 ROM. The Adaptec/PowerDomain utilities run fine in OS 9.2 (SCSI probe, Control Panel), and the card is apparently working. But whenever I connect a drive to it, the machine will not boot. It never gets past the "Grey Screen" with a mouse pointer in the upper left corner. Sometimes the mouse pointer is frozen, sometimes it's moveable.
Congrats on your new machine. I hope it works out for you. Just for your information scsi drives are an issue for many people using Panther and XPFacto on older machines. Ryan has yet to find the cause since not everyone has the issue. If your adapter doesn't work in OS 9.x then of course it's a different issue.
Also, it appears that the ATI Radeon 7000 PCI cards are getting hard to find. Local CompUSA didn't have them any longer, and NewEgg doesn't seem to have any either. I did a search at NewEgg for Radeon 7000 and turned up a PowerColor Radeon 7000 with 64 meg DDR and all 3 outputs - VGA, DVI and TV Out for $58.00. I ordered one and it's exactly the same as the ATI/Sapphire cards. It flashed sucessfully using the same utilities I used on my ATI 7000 with 32 megs. It's running fine.
ATI is no longer selling the ATI 7000 PCI card PC nor Mac! It is unknown at this time if this is temporary and or if there will be a replacement card. Bruno/ Grant (a real piece of work IMHO ;) from ATI who posts on the xlr8yourmac.com video forum. Seems to be running a one man campaign against flashing ATI PC cards to Mac and has even asked people to complain to ebay about sellers of flashed cards. On a forum where flashing is a main topic clueless guy ;-) There must not be any real legal recourse for them since they are resorting to this. It is even possible this is the reason the ATI 7000 cards are disappearing from the market. I just checked at Newegg and all I could find was the Powercolor PCI 32 mb version for $45.00 the 64 mb card seem to be gone along with the Sapphire and ATI cards! Powercolor 7000 cards that can be flashed and used on a Mac are a new thing. Until recently they all used SDR RAM rather then the needed DDR RAM and couldn't be used in a Mac.
allstarshop.com the other US seller of these cards still has the
Sapphire RADEON 7000 32MB DDR PCI TVO/DVI (OEM) card for $40.00 shipping included. They also list the 64mb version which no one in USA had but list it out of stock. ATI versions are gone. So chances are people who want one of these are close to being out of luck.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying having 2 OS X machines!
Dan
Best of luck with your new machine Will S
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