It's time for my first real question to the list...
My Pismo 500 is acting up in strange ways - it won't wake from sleep without locking up hard and requiring a reboot.
When I boot it, I only succesfully boot about one in five or six tries. The rest of the time it either locks up at the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen, presents a bomb and bus and/or system error before loading extensions, locks up without a bomb at the happy mac, or refuses to even present the happy Mac.
A few times, it's dropped me into OpenFirmware!! The message in OF that I get is:
"DEFAULT CATCH!, code=400 at %SRR0: ff80d18c %SRR1: 0000b030"
I've also seen a strange "bomb" type crash (white dialog with the bomb icon) that is a "CHK Error". I've never seen that one before...
I've tried zapping the PRAM, resetting the 'book, switching boot disks, clean installing the OS, resetting all the OF vars with "reset-all"... I've reseated all the RAM cards, the hard drive, and the CPU module, but the problem remains.
It even happens when booting from CD (which is why I don't think it's the OS and do think it's something hardware related).
Right now, I've removed one of my 512MB SODIMMs, and I'll see if the problem occurs with only the other 512MB module... If it does, I'll take that one out and replace the first... And so forth. I doubt it's bad RAM, but hey, this one's got me stumped.
Anybody got any ideas? I'm open to suggestions!
Peace, Drew --
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