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Hi DeltaMac, as usual, thanks for your continued help with my issue. Just to re-cap, since it's been a few days; Last time I posted, I was still struggling to get my Radeon 5770 graphics card to display anything during the boot process. Well, problem solved. As is probably common with home...

DeltaMac, I am encouraged by your reply, but I'm genuinely unconvinced that there's anything wrong with this ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. Excepting all these pre-boot initialization issues, the darned thing is a winner. Every application (games in particular, but graphics rendering on the...

I missed the "multi-quote" memo, so I'll address your points in order... 1. That's good to know! 2. Unfortunately when I "d" boot, with my original system software "Mac OS X Install Disc 1" in the drive, the screen stays dark the whole time. Eventually the CD/DVD drive spins down, and it...

Ooh, Mac-Forums.com had some good feedback. This was my closing reply to their collective genius... "Heh, perhaps I will. It's funny, my broken 8800 still has an itty bitty little bit of life left in it -- I can boot in "safe mode"... sometimes. A risky choice, but maybe I'll just stick it in...

Yes, thank you for your help DeltaMac. I followed your instructions carefully, and my firmware password has been reset. I believe my graphics card problem is unrelated to EFI, however.

Hi, I’ve been experiencing some fan spin-up issues on my Mac Pro 1,1 (late 2006 1st gen. Intel model). After posting at discussions.apple.com, I was encouraged to run Apple Hardware Test to test for any hardware faults. Unfortunately, ever since I replaced my old graphics card with a new one...

Thank you for your advice, DeltaMac. I duplicated my post on couple of other forums as well (hintsforums.macworld.com & mac-forums.com), and both came back with responses similar to your own. I went ahead and reset my firmware as you suggested. Thanks! Had forgotten about that trick. I...

Hi, I’ve been experiencing some fan spin-up issues on my Mac Pro 1,1 (late 2006 1st gen. Intel model). After posting at discussions.apple.com, I was encouraged to run Apple Hardware Test to test for any hardware faults. Unfortunately, ever since I set up a firmware password -- to prevent...

hi fifthmanstandin, i have the same problem, and same concerns. i'll be sending my machine to my local shop this week to re-install osx 10.5.5. the difference is, i HAVE my original system discs, AND the newer retail version of leopard, but still no dice. what did you end up doing to solve your...

hi fifthmanstandin, i have the same problem, and same concerns. i'll be sending my machine to my local shop this week to re-install osx 10.5.5. the difference is, i HAVE my original system discs, AND the newer retail version of leopard, but still no dice. what did you end up doing to solve your...