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Message: <blockquote data-quote="obobski" data-source="post: 1685150" data-attributes="member: 362690">Just an update: I was right, the graphics card was the culprit. I got a "new" (new to me, ha!) Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition today, popped it in, Ubuntu booted right up (its *SLOW*), pulled that CD out (The "hold mouse button to eject" actually works now too!), and 10.5.1 started right up without any problems, and even gave me a little message that OS X detected a system error and it had been logged, and could be sent to Apple or printed/saved if I wanted. It's running just fine with the 9000 Pro, as far as I can tell, so the issue seems to have been squarely with the GF4 Ti. Thanks for the link on the disc info - pictures confirm I do in fact have retail discs for 10.3, and if I can find them (...oh the joys of holiday cleaning and re-arranging while trying to work on a computer) I'm going to try loading 10.3 in place of 10.5 (I don't have discs for 10.5; it just came pre-loaded on the machine). Another question I've come up with: Both the GeForce 4 and the Radeon have ADC and DVI-I connectors; I've seen DVI to ADC adapters that would let me run my ADC monitor on a DVI output (e.g. if I wanted two ADC monitors on this computer, one would need such an adapter), but are there adapters that will let me use the ADC output on the computer to drive DVI or VGA (e.g. ADC to DVI/VGA)? I don't dislike my ADC monitor, but it's kind of a boat anchor compared to the newer monitors I have at my desk, and it also only has the one input (while my newer monitors have multiple inputs, and it'd be no problem to just "add" the Mac to those inputs...if it had enough outputs). Thanks again for all of the information and responses!</blockquote>

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