Schmoburger
Well-known member
I am posting this from my recently conquered and initially troublesome, but now operational 9600/200MP which I received as some of you might recall from a member a couple of hundred kilometers away along with a bunch of other choice goodies and a pair of II-series machines. As you may also recall recently, I could not get this 9600 to display a raster or boot up, despite hours of trolloping about changing card, RAM, etc. configurations, even changed mainboards and swapped back and forth between the stock dual-604 CPU card and the Sonnet Crecendo I also purchased with it.... all to no avail.
Well, to no avail until today when I decided just for a gag, with no positive expectations, to see if I could get a bite out of the beast being that I just the other day tossed my stuffed Rage128 from my G3 into i. I needed to use the G3 to transfer a bunch of stuff and didn't feel like dealing with all the vertical bars and artefacts onscreen caused by the faulty grAphics card, so I put the one formerly out of my Yikes into the G3 (as the Yikes is now running the R7000 from the 9600), and it worked fine, as expected. Anyway, long story short, the 9600 bonged as it does, flashed on the power light green, then red on the graphite studio display as per it's normal mode of failure. However this time instead of staying red and showing no rAster, the light blinked back up green, and up came a grey screen. It then spat out the floppy that I couldnt be bothered manually ejecting from the drive and gave me the crossed out "FU hippy that aint a boot disk" floppy icon then the normal blinking query mark icon, due to the fact at this point all bootable drives were still disconnected.
Well, I let it sit for a little, then pulled the pin and connected the bootable drives back up to the PCIfast SCSI adapter and fired it back up, at which point this time it actually booted fully into 9.1 to my delight!
Well... close to two hours later, after toying with the network settings for a while before realising some connectivity issues were caused by a bad cable, having a brief scout through the software goodies left on the drives for me, then fighting my way through the internet with Netscape 4 to get a copy of Classilla, I am now typing these words on said 9600 using Classilla as viewd through some really crummy video artefacts, but nonetheless working stable so far. It's actually still quite a competent platform, if a little slow with the 604's in it, however the dual-CPU's was a large part of why I bought it, so they will be staying in for the forseeable future.
All the same I am still very confused as to why the dfailing graphics card out of the G3 worked straight away when the 0identical one from the G4, and the Radeon 7000 failed to boot repeatedly, despite working perfectly in the G-machines? That really has me stumped. Anybody have any ideas?
Well, to no avail until today when I decided just for a gag, with no positive expectations, to see if I could get a bite out of the beast being that I just the other day tossed my stuffed Rage128 from my G3 into i. I needed to use the G3 to transfer a bunch of stuff and didn't feel like dealing with all the vertical bars and artefacts onscreen caused by the faulty grAphics card, so I put the one formerly out of my Yikes into the G3 (as the Yikes is now running the R7000 from the 9600), and it worked fine, as expected. Anyway, long story short, the 9600 bonged as it does, flashed on the power light green, then red on the graphite studio display as per it's normal mode of failure. However this time instead of staying red and showing no rAster, the light blinked back up green, and up came a grey screen. It then spat out the floppy that I couldnt be bothered manually ejecting from the drive and gave me the crossed out "FU hippy that aint a boot disk" floppy icon then the normal blinking query mark icon, due to the fact at this point all bootable drives were still disconnected.
Well, I let it sit for a little, then pulled the pin and connected the bootable drives back up to the PCIfast SCSI adapter and fired it back up, at which point this time it actually booted fully into 9.1 to my delight!
Well... close to two hours later, after toying with the network settings for a while before realising some connectivity issues were caused by a bad cable, having a brief scout through the software goodies left on the drives for me, then fighting my way through the internet with Netscape 4 to get a copy of Classilla, I am now typing these words on said 9600 using Classilla as viewd through some really crummy video artefacts, but nonetheless working stable so far. It's actually still quite a competent platform, if a little slow with the 604's in it, however the dual-CPU's was a large part of why I bought it, so they will be staying in for the forseeable future.
All the same I am still very confused as to why the dfailing graphics card out of the G3 worked straight away when the 0identical one from the G4, and the Radeon 7000 failed to boot repeatedly, despite working perfectly in the G-machines? That really has me stumped. Anybody have any ideas?
