ATI card image on display at restart

Maybe someone else has seen this.
The machine has a ATI 9800 128 from ATI. The card has been replaced by ATI for various reasons other than this.
This last replacement card works perfect untill I have to do a software update that requires me to do a restart. On restart I get a card image of the card with the external power leads to the molex connector blinking red and the OS does not load.
I checked the voltage on the connector and all of the voltages are there and are right on spec. The fan on the card is running.
If I shut the machine down and power up the next day everything is ok untill the next restart.
The machine has no issues with the OEM ATI 9000 card even on restart.
ATI says its an Apple problem.
Apple says the machine has no issues with the OEM ATI card. (Will not test the machine with the updated ATI 9800 128 card)
Does anyone know what card image of the card with the external power leads to the molex connector blinking red really means?

Supposed to mean a lack of good/clean +12VDC at the molex connector or could be flaky components in the DC-DC conversion on the board( ie bad voltage regulator or capacitors ).

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|K<

ATI 2600XT is an iffy card.
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ATI 4870 or wait to see if Apple comes out with 5800s
Nvidia GTX 285 ($450)
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I also have a 17" Philips 107S CRT connected to an ADC to VGA adapter, that I bought for $28 from OWC.
works great for me. extended desktop. I have photoshop menus and palettes on the smaller monitor and the main work screen on the larger.
when i watch movies and stuff watch the movies on the larger monitor.
when I use iMovie and After Effects, I do same as I do with Photoshop.
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that ATI Radeon 9200 PCI looks good... about $130 from OWC.
but what I got works fine...

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(Note: I have copied the content of this query from the Creative Suites forum where I originally opened it.)
I am using CS4 under OSX 10.4.11 on a PowerMac G5 Quad with 23" Apple cinema display. Images which have been captured as JPG are displayed fine by Preview, but when opened in Bridge, Camera Raw or Photoshop. the colours are all "washed out". The attached screen capture should give an idea of the difference, with the upper being Camera Raw (image settings) and the lower being Preview. My monitor has been calibrated and I'm using sRGB IEC61966-2.1 colour space in Camera Raw and Photoshop. The colours displayed by Preview are pretty close to "real life". I find it virtually impossible to adjust the colours in Photoshop to get back to anything similar.
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Re: JPG images not displayed correctly in Bridge and Photoshop

xxxxyyyyz wrote:
…If there is someone out there who has experience of obtaining decent colour management in CS4 on a Power PC, I would really like to know how you achieved it.
That would be yours truly, and I hasten to reply because I may have some insights that can help you too.
Just get it it out of the way, here's my setup:
Photoshop 11.0.2 ("CS4"); VersionCue disabled and uninstalled.—2.5 GHz Power Mac (PPC) G5-Quad; 16GB RAM; mutant, flashed 550MHz nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 1,700MHz 512MB VRAM; ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D LP SCSI card; Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.8 boot drives; Spotblight, Dashboard and Time Machine permanently disabled; dual 22" CRT monitors; USB wireless 'n' available but connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet; 1 FW flatbed scanner; 2 SCSI scanners (one tabloid-size transparency scanner and a film scanner); various internal & external HDs; FW Epson 2200 and Ethernet Samsung ML-2850ND printers; 2 X Back-UPS RS 1500 XS units.
I can unambiguously and in good faith represent to you that my color management, from capture to print, is as spot-on as anyone with any kind of setup can hope to achieve. Unequivocally and without qualifications.
Now, first things first: Forget about trying to synchronize color management across the point applications lumped together only by Adobe marketing fiat into a variety of meaningless "creative suites". Concentrate on Photoshop. Do not try to use Bridge to synchronize anything.
The "suites" are a totally artificial construct created by Adobe bean counters and marketing types. The point applications (i.e. the individual programs clumsily bundled together, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) are developed independently by separate engineering teams that are not only not in the same building, but in different cities, different states of the American Union, and even in different countries. They have very little communication among them, if any, as evidenced by repeated posts in these forums by Photoshop engineering staff urging us, the end users, to let the other teams know in their own forums that a given problem exists and is actually affecting our work.
Enough said about the cause of the problem. The end result is that Color Management is at very, very different levels of progress and sophistication in each individual point application, with only Photoshop fully entitled to be considered state of the art.
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Be careful to avoid any version 4 icc profiles, whether canned or generated by your calibration software. Stick to version2 icc profiles. Ask the manufacturer of your calibration software/hardware if in doubt.
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My working color space is ProPhoto RGB. I choose to work with PSD and PSB files. As a long-time, rabid JPEG hater, I only rarely deal with JPEGs, using them sporadically to illustrate a point in this forum or elsewhere in the web. My main output consists of prints.
I only deal with tagged image files (files with an embedded color profile) and often recommend beating up with a baseball bat any moron that hands you an untagged file—figuratively of course, but I find the expression gets my point across unambiguously.
Following is a screen shot of some of my pertinent settings:
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Be further advised, that the answer to many problems offered by Adobe engineers often is not to install VersionCue, or uninstall it, or at least disable it.
Also, as outlined at the beginning of this post, concentrate on Photoshop, not on synchronizing applications that can't really communicate with each other, despite the claims of Adobe marketing hacks to the contrary.
One big caveat, do not fall into this trap:
xxxxyyyyz wrote:
…I believe my problem has nothing to do with my monitor profile, for several reasons, but…
…It seems extremely unlikely to me that…
You either want to learn, or you don't. You either want to solve your problems, or you don't.
When you start arguing instead of studying, questioning advice instead of following it and detecting where you went wrong, you're on the right track to nowhere. That attitude will get you there fast. Remember you are the one with the problem, and only you can acquire the discipline to learn how to solve it.
Go ahead and ask me anything that is not clear, just don't argue with me please, and don't tell me why you think Fraser, Rodney, Ballard and I are wrong. You see, I am not experiencing any problem that needs fixing. I have an interest in helping you, but not in hearing about your speculations, theories or conclusions.
Good luck.
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EndSection
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> Can I still install the new Catalyst driver or it's better if I don't?
I dont recommend the installation of any 3rd party graphic drivers. The fact is that such drivers are not tested and not certified and nobody knows how such driver would affect the notebooks hardware in worst case it could lead to the GPU overheating and damage
best regards

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02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa80
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Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
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01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa80
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cayman XT [AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa80
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EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
Option "Enable" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
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Monitor "Monitor0"
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Depth 24
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EndSubSection
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
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HW acceleration problem with ATI cards

Hello all. This is my first post here
I have noticed the following issue/problem and would like your feedback about it.
We have a lot of intel macs here at the office (15 macs).
Most of them are intel imacs using ATI graphics.
We also have an intel macmini with a nvidia 9400 graphics card, a macbook pro 17inch, core 2 duo with nvidia graphics etc.
My personal macs are:
1) a macpro 1.1 (upgraded to 2.1) with (upgraded) 2 x5365 xeon cpus @ 3ghz (8 core machine), 10GB ram, ΑΤΙ HD 4870 1GB, INTEL 80GB G2 SSD ...
2) an imac 2.93Ghz i7 27inch, with 16GB RAM and an ATI 5xxx card (i do not remember the exact model, i think it is the 5770 card as a successor to the 4850 card).
I have noticed the following issue on ALL the macs i have access to: whichever mac runs nvidia card, irrespective of the specification of both the nvidia card and its cpu, has hw acceleration working properly when browsing the web.
For example, if i visit these links:
http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/HWACCEL/
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Default.html
and i run the respective test on any of the macs we have here equipped with an ATI card i get slow frame rates, ie. on my macpro, with a dual monitor setup 2560x1600 (apple 30inch) and 1680x1050 (apple cinema display) i get 20s FPS when running the tests and this is only when using safari.
The same applies when running these tests on my imac i7 as well as on all other macs that are running ATI hardware.
On the contrary if i run the tests on a mac which is equipped with a nvidia card i get (depending on how old the hardware is) 50+ or even 60+ FPS.
I do know that things are complicated with hw acceleration on OS X Lion and in particular when browsing the internet (partially working hw acceleration) but why the difference between ATI and NVIDIA?
All drivers .kext files are original and not patched.
When running benchmarks, the results appear on par with similar systems.
Of course all of our macs are running OS X Lion, latest version with latest updates installed.
Also cleared safari cache (by manually deleting the cache.db file as well), disabled all of the plug-ins, installed latest version of adobe flash, to no avail.
I just want to know why there is different hw acceleration behaviour when running a NVIDIA instead of an ATI card on OS X LION.
From a practical perspective i think this is why sometimes when i browse the web i have excessively cpu utilization even on powerful systems (i7, 8core macpro etc) running ATI hardware.
Please excuse my English, it is not my main language

UPDATE:
After reading here http://betanews.com/2012/02/10/google-releases-chrome-18-beta-get-it-now/
i just tried the Google Chrome Beta v 18.0.1025.11 and i saw a dramatic difference. On a 2560x1600 screen i am now getting on this test (http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/HWACCEL/ ) approximately 40+ FPS. Nevertheless my question still stands: why people with NVIDIA cards on a mac do not have this problem?

ATI card image on display at restart

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