ATI Radion 7000 for Mac PCI Card

Hi jarrett
What is sounds like to me, as I believe I had this problem when I installed that same card, is your computer monitor is still set to the on-board video. You can resolve this I believe in 2 ways. The first and easiest is if you have a spare monitor around attach it to the onboard video leaving your monitor hooked up to the radeon 7000 card. Then restart your computer and when it boots you should end up with your blue screen on the radeon card monitor and your desktop on the onboard video, open monitor and drag the display around so that the radeon is the #1 monitor. This should switch so that now your monitor on the radeon is showing your desktop.
The other way I heard about is doing a reinstall of jaguar, which you can do a archive and install so you don't lose all your information. If you don't have a spare monitor, try starting up off of your jaguar install disk and see if you can switch your monitor setting from there.
Post back with your results and further info Bill J

Jarret,

A few questions:

Do you have any other PCI cards installed?

Is the card a genuine Mac Radeon as opposed to a card for a peecee tha's been flashed to work in a Mac?

Have you tried removing the overclock temporarily? IF you OCed the PCI bus in the process of getting to 375mHz, the change in bus speed could be getting in the way.

Allan

I would pull both USB cards and then retest with the Radeon. If it works, add the Adaptec card.

Some Belkin USB cards have shown behavior that suggests they are drawing more than their fair share of power from the PCI bus's max of 45W. A high-perf video card can draw 25W easily. "Normal" USB cards can pull between 5 and 10W; some of use think the Belkins pull more than that. You may be in the situation of the Belkin card not allowing enough power to the Radeon.

I'm betting the problem is the Belkin card, not the Radeon.

A

Hmmm. I guess I'm back to my second question above. "Is it a genuine Radeon Mac Edition or a peecee card with the ROM flashed to work in a Mac?"

Most flashed cards do OK except for some occasional sleep problems. However, were the flash job not completed or something went awry during the flashing process, it would not work correctly in a Mac.

A

Hi Jarrett
Have you tried to start up from the onboard video, and changing your settings? If I am reading your post right, your computer goes thru the boot process, but when the screen changes to blue your desktop never appears? If that if what is happening read my other post and try that. Bill J

This article:

Mac OS 10.2.8--Blue or dark screen after updating

is a long shot in that your computer worked before. However, you might want to read the article and see if the suggestions help. One thing you can test without applying the Terminal commands is to remove RAM until you have less than 192MB physical RAM. If the problem goes away, then the issue described in the article and its cure should get you going. You can add the extra RAM back after applying the cure.

Sounds like your card is a genuine Mac Edition if it came in a ATI box from a retail store that knows Macs. One thing to check is the output ports. A sure sign of a flashed peecee Radeon is the presence of only one video-out port (VGA) on the card. The "real deal" has three including a round S-video, or composite video, jack.

AJ

What the Mac can do (and may have done in your case) is to combine both displays into an "Extended Desktop". This takes the additional area on the new display and extends the desktop onto it. What makes this difficult is that the menubar and mouse are still on the original built-in display buffer, even if no physical display is attached.

Video experts say that displays use very low voltages and can be plugged and unplugged "live" with no bad effects. When your Mac is up and running, try moving the display to the built-in port and see if your mouse and menubar are sitting there, waiting for you to log in. If they are, open System preferences > Monitors and arrange the displays so that the menubar is on the new display. After that, if you take the adapter off the built-in display, it may decide you don't want to use it any more (after the next restart).

Hello Gang,

Sometime back I tried a 32MB Radeon Mac 7000 with the same result, i.e. it didn't work. After a little playing around, I said to heck with it and tried a 32MB Radeon Mac which worked fine the first out. Subsequently I tried a 64MB Radeon Mac (flashed PC) which didn't work until I performed the two monitors trick. After I was able to reset the resolution it worked just fine, although it continues to adjust itself from time to time which the genuine Radeon Mac doesn't do.

Now that I know what all else to try, maybe I'll give the 32MB 7000 another shot.

FWIW ..... Jon