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Thanks for the idea, but I tested the RAM individually. With each of the three sticks OSX worked fine but OS 9 would only boot to a gray screen.

I just now tried booting into OS 9 again. I do not get the shades of gray. Just one flat gray screen. So, I don't know what this means.

Philip

Dixiechicken & All, Well, I'm back. No success yet. I erased and zero formatted my first internal hard drive. I then re-partitioned it into two partitions. I installed OSX 10.3.9 on the first partition. All was well. I then tried to boot to my OS 9 install CD but again got only a gray screen. I ...

Well, my excitement was short lived. I got the gray screen again this morning, so I guess the mouse fix was just a coincidence. Proceeding with a fresh install.

Thanks for all of the help. I may be back with some questions if I have trouble during the clean install.

Philip

Dixiechicken, My plan was to wipe my hard drive today and start reinstalling. But I didn't have time. Then I got your post about the mouse. I use a Logitech wireless mouse--two buttons and scroll wheel. I have not been able to boot into OS 9 since last Friday. I unplugged the Logitech and plugged in...

Johnnytucats,

If my installation does not fix the problem I will try that. Do you know, would Apple Hardware Test or Tech Tool Pro report a bad IDE controller?

Philip

Midiw,

No offense taken, by me. When this problem first surfaced about a month ago I posted to the MacWorld forum. The people there were helpful and knowledgeable, but were unable to find a solution.

Philip

I've had OS 9 and OSX on the same drive, different partitions for over three years now, so I don't really think that's the problem. But I do a lot of switching back and forth between the two systems and maybe a conflict of some type has finally developed...oh hell, I don't know what I'm talking abou...

What you say makes sense and is probably a good idea. Right now my second internal drive is stuffed with samples and loops. I would need to transfer those to my firewire to make the second drive available for OS 9, and use the first internal for OSX. I'm thinking about it. The ability to leave OS 9 ...

I was also hoping that rebuilding the desktop would solve the problem. In the last month I've probably rebuilt the desktop a dozen times, both from OS 9 when it is not in gray screen and from Classic in OSX when I have the gray screen. As for not having both OS on the same drive, different partition...

I cannot boot from my OS 9 install CD when the computer screen is gray. I re-start holding the C key down and just get the gray screen after the chime. I then have to re-start holding the option key so I can select OSX and at least get to a working operating system. The OS 9 install CD is the one th...

Thanks for all of the document links. I had read the first two but had not seen the document about error messages. Unfortunately, I don't get any error message, just a gray screen. What you say about the system not finding the "tbxi" resource sounds interesting. I just don't feel qualified...

No other PCI cards, just the MOTU PCI-424.

Philip

I've had an intermittent problem for about a month now. I've tried everything I can think of to solve the problem but it still persists. I'm hoping someone on this forum will have some new ideas. Apologies up front for the length. G4 933 single processor Quicksilver, 1.5 GB RAM, MOTU PCI-424 audio c...

I totally agree--if you *have* to mix using headphone the AKG K-240 DF would be my first choice. Quote: The K240DF follows the criteria specified by the Institute Of Radio Technology (ITR) in Munich for a "diffused field" equalization curve that provides headphone listeners with the sound ...

luism,

As far as I know DP does not give you the option of using different panning laws like some other DAWs (Cubase, Sonar). You might want to do a search of the motu-mac yahoo group archives. DP's panning law is occasionally discussed there.

Philip