On 31.03.2006, at 13:25, Liam Proven wrote:
Not sure if this is entirely on-topic, but things have been quiet in here recently. I'm trying to run 10.4 on a couple of Blue & White G3s. They're rev 1 400MHz machines; I recently was given 3 of them, all partially stripped out - e.g. I got a single 128MB SDRAM DIMM across all 3. I built one up from parts from my old Beige G3, which I've now given away. It got 768MB RAM, a Voodoo5 PCI graphics card, an Ahard Acard ATA133 RAID controller with 2 disks - a 15 & a 20GB. Unfortunately, it seemed rather unstable, so I built up a second from the leftovers. 384M RAM, two 9GB Ultrawide SCSI drives on a Adaptec 2930 and an ATI Rage 128 card. Clean installs of MacOS 9.2.2 on one disk and 10.4 on the other. This seemed stable, so I put in my 2nd Rage 128, took the memory up to 512MB and put it into use. Unfortunately, it quickly proved to be rather unstable too. So I built up the 3rd. 2 20G disks on the old Ahard, 256MB of old RAM I had lying around and the same old Voodoo5. To my pleased surprise, this now proved stable, cheerfully running [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a few days' burn-in testing with no problems. OS X didn't like the Voodoo card and it tended to require some fiddling with XPF to get it to boot, but once it came up, it was stable. So I transplanted the memory and twin Rage cards from the older, flakey machine and set this up as my main machine. The Voodoo went into the older, flakey SCSI machine, just to see what happened. You might be able to guess. The previously-stable IDE-based box has become unstable now it has the twin ATI cards, whereas the previously-unstable SCSI machine is now solid as a rock with the Voodoo5 - even OS X successfully boots every time, though the console messages whinge about an outdated ROM NDRV in the display card. Has anyone met anything like this, where merely adding 2 displays seems to make a machine unstable? I don't think it's the RAM - that was perfectly reliable when it was in the Beige. I don't think it's the OS X install - one is old & a little cluttered, one is new, but both are stable under certain circumstances. Both Rage cards seem fine; both work find under OS 9 & OS X, there are no display artifacts or errors or anything. My next troubleshooting step is to pull 1 of the Rage cards & see if it makes any difference. Are there particular slots one should or shouldn't use for displays in a rev 1 B&W?
my 2 b&w rev1 and rev2 run both latest tigers without any need to use xpf on them. Both dual head with radeon 7000s
I found out that the pci bus can be problematic when it uses too much system resources. Quartz extreme hack and using controllers (Firewire and/or ATA Cards) crashed those boxes. Maybe that's a point...
You have those boxes on their original cpu and bus clocks - say that u - or someone - don't tuned them with changing the clock jumper blocks ?
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