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Panther on G3
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Im trying to update my blue and white g3 to panther from 10.0. It will boot off of the disk but when it loads, the screen is in all shades of gray. if i boot back to 10.0 its just fine. anyone have a way to fix this?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
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make sure you upgrade the firmware.
get the latest version off the apple support page.
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i think the firmware is updated. but i thought you couldnt update it from 10? i thought it required os 8 or os 9. Oh and if it makes a difference, it has a bizarre ATI capture card in it. could that be the issue?
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Well, take the bizarre card out and try again! Post back if this does not work. How much RAM do you have?
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i have 320mb of ram in it. i cant take the card out because i dont have another one to put in. i believe its the ATI XCLAIM GA card. but im not sure
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Northern California
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Panther works good on the B&W G3's... so maybe you should check that that card is compatible with OS X. How good is it compared to the Rage 128 Pro that those machines shipped with?
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Mac OS X 10.5.0, Mac Pro 2.66GHz/2 GB RAM/X1900 XT, 23" ACD
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The issue is, this is the only card i have for it. this is what i recieved it with. i did mange to get panther installed, but i cant change the resolution to anything above 640X480.
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Have you upgraded 10.3 to 10.3.9 yet?
Sounds like a video card issue.
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i did upgrade to 10.3.9. i can manage to get the video to work correctly if i use this hack i found at macintouch.com.
"The following Terminal command overrides 10.3's new boot behaviour, and loads from the card ROM as in prior versions of system 10:
% sudo nvram boot-args="romndrv=1"
[enter admin password]
Re-boot your computer."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally Posted by bambam43410
The issue is, this is the only card i have for it. this is what i recieved it with.
Yeah, I was just curious how it stacked up to the Rage 128 Pro, because maybe it wasn't powerful enough for OS X. Good you got it working.
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Mac OS X 10.5.0, Mac Pro 2.66GHz/2 GB RAM/X1900 XT, 23" ACD
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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You could probably grab a Radeon 7000 PCI card on eBay for that machine for pretty cheap.
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