Hi everyone,
I have an upgraded G4 Cube with a (tower) Sonnet 1.2GHz 7455 CPU, a 200GB / 7200rpm Seagate HDD and 1.5GB RAM, and recently upgraded the graphics card to an XFX 6200 'WANG'. It has the black PCB and seems to be the recommended 6200 upgrade. I also tracked down and fitted the recommended Titan copper GPU cooler.
The Cube boots quickly into Tiger and Leopard, and plays old games like Quake 3 / UT99 like a champ. It is completely stable and I haven't seen any glitches. The problem is that if the Mac is put to sleep, it generally doesn't wake up. It was fine with the Rage 128. The fans spin up and the power sensor lights up, but the display is blank. It will always wake if woken immediately after being put to sleep, and occasionally it will wake up as asked after, say, an hour. But usually, it does not.
I used ROMs from the Mac Elite website, and have tried both the standard one and the 'no sensor' one (Tome's version; the regular 'no sensor' one wouldn't flash). I had already removed the HWTemp kext, but thought it worth trying a different version in case it solved this problem.
I've tried everything I can think of - removing USB devices, different RAM, DVI, VGA, VGA via DVI-I, CPU Nap mode, PMU reset, PRAM reset, various energy saver preferences and so on.
My questions:
1. If you have put an XFX 6200 in a Cube, does it wake reliably from sleep? If so, is your Cube otherwise stock, or does it have a CPU upgrade?
2. Has anyone had this issue with one card, then tried another and found it to work properly in the same machine? I.e. either tried another XFX WANG, or a different make (e.g. BFG) and found that worked?
3. If I can't resolve the issue with the 6200, I might look into using a 5200 instead. I only need it for Core Image (Leopard) and a bit of Quake. Can anyone recommend a good card model + ROM combo? I have a 5200U in my iMac G4 20", which seems to do OK, so although a downgrade might not be that big a deal.
Thanks in advance!
I have an upgraded G4 Cube with a (tower) Sonnet 1.2GHz 7455 CPU, a 200GB / 7200rpm Seagate HDD and 1.5GB RAM, and recently upgraded the graphics card to an XFX 6200 'WANG'. It has the black PCB and seems to be the recommended 6200 upgrade. I also tracked down and fitted the recommended Titan copper GPU cooler.
The Cube boots quickly into Tiger and Leopard, and plays old games like Quake 3 / UT99 like a champ. It is completely stable and I haven't seen any glitches. The problem is that if the Mac is put to sleep, it generally doesn't wake up. It was fine with the Rage 128. The fans spin up and the power sensor lights up, but the display is blank. It will always wake if woken immediately after being put to sleep, and occasionally it will wake up as asked after, say, an hour. But usually, it does not.
I used ROMs from the Mac Elite website, and have tried both the standard one and the 'no sensor' one (Tome's version; the regular 'no sensor' one wouldn't flash). I had already removed the HWTemp kext, but thought it worth trying a different version in case it solved this problem.
I've tried everything I can think of - removing USB devices, different RAM, DVI, VGA, VGA via DVI-I, CPU Nap mode, PMU reset, PRAM reset, various energy saver preferences and so on.
My questions:
1. If you have put an XFX 6200 in a Cube, does it wake reliably from sleep? If so, is your Cube otherwise stock, or does it have a CPU upgrade?
2. Has anyone had this issue with one card, then tried another and found it to work properly in the same machine? I.e. either tried another XFX WANG, or a different make (e.g. BFG) and found that worked?
3. If I can't resolve the issue with the 6200, I might look into using a 5200 instead. I only need it for Core Image (Leopard) and a bit of Quake. Can anyone recommend a good card model + ROM combo? I have a 5200U in my iMac G4 20", which seems to do OK, so although a downgrade might not be that big a deal.
Thanks in advance!
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