>The Mac on my desk at school (their machine) is a PowerMac 5500/225. We
>boosted the RAM to 96 mb this year, and replaced the original 2 gb hard
>drive with a 10 gig drive. I also added a Sonnet G3 upgrade card to that
>machine, which works very well. I've probably experienced more crashes on
>that particular Mac, but only since I've upgraded the OS from 9.0.4 to 9.1.
>I found a few pieces of software which don't seem to like OS 9.1.
Ah, that mac was particualarly flakey. It has some bad PCI bus timing
issues that wouls cause it to just lock up. I was able to get the one
where I work to be more stable by sticking with 8.6 and making sure
virtual memory was off. However that mac is always gonna have
troubbles. It logicbard is the same as the one in the PowerMac 6500,
and the 6500 was plauged by motherboard issues. I've seen 6500 just
stop working.
I'd realy try to run 9.x and higher only on native G3 systems and
better. Stick with 8.6 on anything older, even if it has been
upgraded to a g3 or g4.
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