Radeon Failure after PRAM Zap; TurboTax Offers

Radeon Failure after PRAM Zap Ben Ralston reports an odd problem that caused his ATI Radeon 7000 series graphics card to fail after resetting his Power Mac 9600's PRAM.

"I could regularly reproduce a problem with my ATI Radeon Mac Edition (original, not 7000) in which after a PRAM zap, the card would simply not be recognized by the system. No video, no monitor sync, and Apple System Profiler would report its PCI slot as empty. It literally didn't exist from the system's perspective. I would have to remove the card from the slot for an extended period of time, and then re-insert it for it to be recognized again. I figure the card must retain some settings on-board that zapping PRAM corrupts. However, this time my card won't come back to life after trying the usual fixes as well as pressing/holding the cuda switch on my Power Mac 9600."

TurboTax Offers Charlie Conway reports a discrepancy between offers made to Mac and Windows customers through a "TurboTax Renewal" program from Intuit:

"If other Mac user's received the same 'TurboTax renewal' letter from Intuit that I did, then it appears that Intuit is (1) pitching their Windows versions to established Mac user's (2) charging $10 more for TurboTax Deluxe for Mac ($49.95) than Turbotax Deluxe for Windows ($39.95), and offering a more limited product line in the Mac version, and (3) making free offers (free shipping, free Britannica CD, free Print Shop/Click Art CDs ) exclusively for TurboTax Deluxe for Windows online orders (not Mac orders)"

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