on 02/10/03 01:00, Andrew Kershaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > 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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