Panther doens't like my B&W :(
My machine is a G3 B&W REV C that has been upgraded to a G4 500Mhz (Sonnet Upgrade), 768MB RAM, 2930 Adaptec SCSI Card and external SCSI Yamaha Burner.
Ever since the upgraded to Panther I get at least 3 black restart screens a day. This never happened with previous versions of OS X or OS 9.
I have tried a clean install on a new HD with all the most recent updates available form Apple.com with still no better luck as far as crashing.
Aside form the crashes it runs just fine.
Any ideas?
Help!
Hujib
Ever since the upgraded to Panther I get at least 3 black restart screens a day. This never happened with previous versions of OS X or OS 9.
I have tried a clean install on a new HD with all the most recent updates available form Apple.com with still no better luck as far as crashing.
Aside form the crashes it runs just fine.
Any ideas?
Help!
Hujib
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This may not work but if you resolve the problem let us know the cause.
I'm running Panther on my B&W Rev.2, 1 GB RAM - upgraded with OWC G3/550, Radeon 7000, SIIG ATA-133 and SIIG USB 2.0 cards (I don't have my 2930U installed at the moment) with no problems at all.
Good luck
Forgot to mention that I've got an ATI PCI Radeon 7000 in there as well, running it with the PCI Extreme (latest version). Maybe that patch is the problem?
I'll try that RAM test and see if it helps..
I did the firmware update back when it was firts available.
Thanks for the advice so far.
Hujib
Oh - did you ever update the ROM on that card?
ATI driver and ROM update available HERE
*fingers crossed*
Hujib
http://www.sonnettech.com/news/panther_update.html
Sonnet seems to be "ok" with Panther ^^
Hujib
That doesn't mean they don't work.
Seems that the cause was indeed the outdated ROM on the ATI Radeon 7000. Although I couldn't get the ROM update utility to work within Panther... once I did get it patched it's been working great! Including PCI Extreme
Thanks again to all the advice,
Hujib
Everything is doing fine except when a print job is running to my Epson 580 and I continue to work on the machine i get the black screen fo death. Maybe t's Panther's Stykus 580 support. oh well.. it's time for a new printer anyways.
According to documents provided by Apple it is only a hardware based technology. PCI-extreme is only available in the new G5's. Are you talking about the 'hack' utility that reconfig's one of the xml files of OS X to use Quartz over PCI? I guess that would work, but the name of that program is misleading...
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