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I tried the disk utility and I'm still stuck on a grey screen on startup. How frustrating! Any way, I'm starting to think that I may have to track down a new scsi card and throw the other one in the bin.. unless anyone has any other ideas...

Hi again. There was an uninstaller that came witht the driver so I just used that to get rid of the adaptec290x-2930.kext. So yeah, witht the card in the mac hangs on a blank grey screen and with no card it works fine. I'll try the disk utility and let you know how i go. Thanks again!

Hi. I 've pulled out the scsi card and the mac managed to start up fine. I then deleted the driver, and installed the card in a new slot. I also pressed the button on the board, and I'm now back at the same problem: the computer hangs on a grey blank screen on startup. Any more ideas? I think...

whoops, accidental double post.

Well, i've just tried to get rid of the driver, but I can't manage to even get the mac to start up now. Here's what happens: Start the mac with a OSX install cd in the drive and pressing c on the keyboard. I get a blank grey screen. The drive ejects the disc by itself and then the grey apple...

Hi, thanks for all your help so far. The card is and adaptec ava 2906. The driver is adaptec2906 and comes in a package cafrom the adaptec website called adp2906_X_v102.hqx. Does this help?

Hi, thanks for the advice. I had another look on the card and I did find a name and model number (its an adaptec). I found the driver, installed it on the machine and now the computer no longer starts up. It just hangs on the grey startup screen. It makes me think there's something wrong with...

Recently, I was doing some scanning on a g4 at work and in the middle of the scan, we had a power cut. When the power was back on the computer wouldn't restart, so i formatted the HD and re-installed OSX 10.2. Now the scanners don't work. When I go into System Profiler, the SCI card isn't...

Hi, The other day I got into work, sat down, strecthed my arms out and then brought one elbow down straight onto the open tray of the DVD drive in my (work's) G5. I'm surprised the tray didn't snap off completely with the force of my falling arm! Now the tray only goes in about an inch and I...