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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Auto Login Failue/screensaver Failure In Os X Tiger
Dangston - Jul 28, 2005 - 8:03 am
Hello folks...
This is my first ever question to you all and I've got my fingers crossed (which makes typing difficult.)
My system is an original G4 AGP Graphics tower, now fitted with a Sonnet ST/G4 processor Card of 1.2G, plus RAM extended to 1.2G plus (installed at the same time as the Sonnet Card) an ATI Radeon 9200 MacEdition PCI Graphics Card. This is feeding a 17" Sony X-Black monitor through the DVI interface.
Having installed Tiger (up to 10.4.2) the mac OS X will not let me log in automatically (even though I am the only user, therefore have all administrator privileges) nor will any screensaver module kick in. It will try to start, but then just disappear back to the desktop. Playing with the Accounts prefs to attempt different methods of logging in, I have also noticed that, under some settings, not all of my start up items will load either.
I've searched the Internet to see if anyone else has ever suffered from these glitches (everything else seems to be working perfectly) but I think I'm alone.
After a lot of frustration, I decided to do one test to see if the problem was hardware or software based problem and cloned my entire existing system as it stood onto a removable hard drive, took it to work, booted up from it to a Mac PowerBook... and 'lo and behold it all worked perfectly.
Therefore, a software solution seems unnecessary, but I can't isolate what the hardware problem might be.
I have a vague suspicion that by putting the Radeon 9200 PCI card in, I've created the situation (it should have been an AGP card instead, I guess, replacing the original RAGE card that was in the machine when I bought it) so if I remove either the new Radeon 9200 from its PCI slot... OR remove the still-present AGP Rage card from its slot, that might help. I don;t have the funds available to keep buying and trying different cards - so I'm hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction.
Fingers still crossed and I look forward to hearing from you.
This is my first ever question to you all and I've got my fingers crossed (which makes typing difficult.)
My system is an original G4 AGP Graphics tower, now fitted with a Sonnet ST/G4 processor Card of 1.2G, plus RAM extended to 1.2G plus (installed at the same time as the Sonnet Card) an ATI Radeon 9200 MacEdition PCI Graphics Card. This is feeding a 17" Sony X-Black monitor through the DVI interface.
Having installed Tiger (up to 10.4.2) the mac OS X will not let me log in automatically (even though I am the only user, therefore have all administrator privileges) nor will any screensaver module kick in. It will try to start, but then just disappear back to the desktop. Playing with the Accounts prefs to attempt different methods of logging in, I have also noticed that, under some settings, not all of my start up items will load either.
I've searched the Internet to see if anyone else has ever suffered from these glitches (everything else seems to be working perfectly) but I think I'm alone.
After a lot of frustration, I decided to do one test to see if the problem was hardware or software based problem and cloned my entire existing system as it stood onto a removable hard drive, took it to work, booted up from it to a Mac PowerBook... and 'lo and behold it all worked perfectly.
Therefore, a software solution seems unnecessary, but I can't isolate what the hardware problem might be.
I have a vague suspicion that by putting the Radeon 9200 PCI card in, I've created the situation (it should have been an AGP card instead, I guess, replacing the original RAGE card that was in the machine when I bought it) so if I remove either the new Radeon 9200 from its PCI slot... OR remove the still-present AGP Rage card from its slot, that might help. I don;t have the funds available to keep buying and trying different cards - so I'm hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction.
Fingers still crossed and I look forward to hearing from you.
bobw - Jul 28, 2005 - 10:52 am
Hi Danny
My guess, the 9200 card is causing the problem.
Have you created another user and logged into that account to see if the problem is there also?
There's a Firmware update for this card you could try here;
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24812
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
My guess, the 9200 card is causing the problem.
Have you created another user and logged into that account to see if the problem is there also?
There's a Firmware update for this card you could try here;
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24812
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
Dangston - Jul 28, 2005 - 11:45 am
Thank you, Bob.
I have tried going down the creating the 'new user' route... but it did nothing.
Thank you for the link, I'll go fetch it and try it out.
Best help so far!!
I have tried going down the creating the 'new user' route... but it did nothing.
Thank you for the link, I'll go fetch it and try it out.
Best help so far!!
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