Re: Firewire card causes stall (freeze) at startup

[gregg hillmar]

I went through three G3 DT motherboards before I found one with a 
working 3rd slot (Luckily I had access to motherboards to test). All 
failed as you described. The other two slots worked fine. SO I have 
wondered if it was a manufacturing defect that somehow crept by when we 
weren't looking- some kind of "use it or lose it" glitch.

Have you tried putting the card in one of the other slots to make sure 
it is not the card?

good luck.
g.
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On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 04:21  AM, GRife wrote:

I just bought a used iPod and got a firewire PCI card so that I could 
use it
w/ my Beige G3 DT computer. When I put the card in (3rd slot, farthest 
from
power supply) the computer wont start up. I get the desktop pattern 
and the
big icon w. the OS 9.2 name, the little bar begins to go across from 
lt to
rt, but only goes about 1/6 of the way, then the cursor turns into a
spinning ball thing, then stops spinning and it's then stalled/frozen.
    I suspected an extensions conflict with FW extensions, so left the 
card
in and started up w. extensions off but same thing happened. I tried 
the
reset (cuda) button, and turning off a couple FW extensions after 
removing
the FW card, but that didn't help either. When I take the card out it 
works
normally. Do I just have a bad fw card, or what might the problem be?
    I want to use my iPod!
Beige G3 desktop, 256 mb RAM
OS 9.2.1
video and USB cards
400 mhz G3 NewerTech processor chip (overclocked to 433)
            George (NickUtah)

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