R7000 beige G3 issues

[croissantking]

This is a bizarre one. I can’t get my newly flashed Radeon 7000 PCI to work in my beige G3 when I have a Yikes G4 ZIF installed.

The problem only occurs with the ATi extensions installed. It locks up when the CPU Director extension tries to enable the cache. If I disable the CPU Director extension, then it gets as far as the menu bar appearing before locking up. If I disable
the ATi Resource Manager extension, then everything is fine (but no 2D acceleration).

If I put back in my G3 ZIF in the beige, all works great.

The R7000 also does not have this issue in the Yikes machine with the same CPU.

Any ideas what could be going on here?

 

[croissantking]

Ok, so it’s doing it with the same extension set and a Rage 128 installed - so not a R7000 problem per se.

ATi drivers don’t like the G4 upgrade - hmm.

Not another Rev C ROM issue I hope.

 

[Phipli]

You might find that if you wait for five minutes it finishes loading.

I find the late versions of the drivers wuite buggy and usually run one of the oldest ones that supports the R7000.

 

[croissantking]

You might find that if you wait for five minutes it finishes loading.

I find the late versions of the drivers wuite buggy and usually run one of the oldest ones that supports the R7000.

I’ve waited 15 mins but it’s locked hard - no mouse movement.

I’ll stick the G3 back in for now so I can fully test out the R7000. Also, I’m not really doing anything that requires a G4, it’s just ‘nice to have’.

I’m just surprised as I think that a G4 and R7000 would be a fairly common beige upgrade that people would have done.

 

[Powerbase]

Have you tried something like Daystars Mach Speed Tools instead of CPUDirector?

 

[croissantking]

I’ll check it out - is it on the ‘garden?

 

[Powerbase]

I’ll check it out - is it on the ‘garden?

Yes it is. I forget wether its one word or two (MachSpeed versus Mach Speed).