tmtomh
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(1) Beige G3, ATI Rage 128 PCI video card, 17" Apple blue and white CRT monitor: works great.
(2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 PCI video cards, and same Apple monitor: works great.
I sold the two cards from the Yikes, and today I needed to boot it up and test it. So I swapped the Rage 128 card from the beige G3 into the Yikes - and here the problems began:
(3) Yikes with Rage 128 card in the "dedicated monitor" PCI slot (66MHz I think): no video; monitor stays black, and its power light stays amber.
(4) Then tried the card in one of the Yikes' other, "regular" PCI slots (33MHz): corrupt video - vertical lines on initial boot screen, then totally messed up colors, lines, cursor, everything, when it boots to the desktop.
(5) Swapped video card back into beige G3: same problem, corrupt video; now I get the same issues with the beige G3, whereas this card worked fine with the beige G3 just yesterday.
(6) Tested the CRT monitor using the beige G3's built-in monitor port: works great.
So, did I fry the ATI Rage 128 card by sticking it into the special "monitor slot" PCI slot in the Yikes machine? Or was it just a coincidence, and the ATI video card was about to fail anyway?
FYI, these problems are not affected by booting into a different OS on each machine, or by zapping PRAM, or by cleaning the contacts on the video card and blowing out dust from the PCI slots on both machines.
Anything I'm missing here? Any possibility the ATI card ISN'T fried?
TIA for any insights/advice,
Matt
(2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 PCI video cards, and same Apple monitor: works great.
I sold the two cards from the Yikes, and today I needed to boot it up and test it. So I swapped the Rage 128 card from the beige G3 into the Yikes - and here the problems began:
(3) Yikes with Rage 128 card in the "dedicated monitor" PCI slot (66MHz I think): no video; monitor stays black, and its power light stays amber.
(4) Then tried the card in one of the Yikes' other, "regular" PCI slots (33MHz): corrupt video - vertical lines on initial boot screen, then totally messed up colors, lines, cursor, everything, when it boots to the desktop.
(5) Swapped video card back into beige G3: same problem, corrupt video; now I get the same issues with the beige G3, whereas this card worked fine with the beige G3 just yesterday.
(6) Tested the CRT monitor using the beige G3's built-in monitor port: works great.
So, did I fry the ATI Rage 128 card by sticking it into the special "monitor slot" PCI slot in the Yikes machine? Or was it just a coincidence, and the ATI video card was about to fail anyway?
FYI, these problems are not affected by booting into a different OS on each machine, or by zapping PRAM, or by cleaning the contacts on the video card and blowing out dust from the PCI slots on both machines.
Anything I'm missing here? Any possibility the ATI card ISN'T fried?
TIA for any insights/advice,
Matt