Troubleshooting upgraded IIci

[LCARS]

There are two different issues going on and one lead to the other. The machine is a recapped IIci with DayStar Turbo 601 PPC and Radius Precision Color 24X cards. It's running 7.6.1 with 128MB RAM and a SCSI2SD.

Issue 1: I have installed what should be the correct Radius software. All the control panels respond (except Radius Power Saver). When I switched from the mono-resolution Macintosh Color Display to the 17" Apple MultipleScan, I have no resolution options and it looks like it kept it in the lower resolution of the MCD. The drop down menu mentions the 13" monitor and a Radius/Precision 19 but no other options and selecting either does nothing.

Issue 2: I figured a PRAM reset would help. It didn't. And it knocked the 601 out, which the manual said might happen after a PRAM reset. However, as per DayStar's advice on re-selecting the 601 via the control panel, it doesn't work. I'm met with "This control panel cannot be used with this Macintosh."  Booting with extensions off and then selecting the 601 control panel didn't work either.

So now I have neither an optimal monitor resolution or my turbo card. Where should I go from here? Might the Radius drivers be wrong? Did I miss something?

Thank you : )

 

[LCARS]

Quick update: one problem solved- the 601 card. I went into Control Panels in the "Previous System Folder" (the one with all the PPC extensions) and re-enabled it.

Unfortunately, I still have no monitor resolution options.

 

[beachycove]

Try holding down CMD + OPT + Mouse button on booting. You are meant to get a series of choices of resolution, your selection of which is then kept in PRAM for subsequent use. See here, near the foot of the page: http://radius.vintagebox.de/RadiusQA/precclrcard.html

If this doesn't work, you might want to check if the monitor requires Apple software like the 17" ColorSync does. I had one of those you have aeons ago, but can't remember any particulars.

 

[LCARS]

Thank you once again, beachycove. The IIci is now back to normal, with on-the-fly resolution changes available. I appreciate the link. It's nice to have classic documentation so easily available. The hunt for such information can be tedious at times.

After the startup combo and a restart, the options became available. The PPC card makes PRAM resets a bit of a chore. Booting in that scenario loads the PPC system folder on the 030 and routines like MacInTalk 3 struggle. Its interesting that it works at all but I can see why the Installer requires (I think) a 040 or PPC.

This monitor doesn't have any ColorSync aspects (that I know of). I recall the replacement CRTs did and came with their own CD-ROM to drive them (even a Windows version). It's amazing that a 1989 Mac can be upgraded to significantly. Those were the days... b: