Alan Camuto wrote:
I have a dual G4 450mhz Mac running OS9 with 1 gig of Ram. I recently installed a Sonnet ATA 133 (bios 4.5) card with 2 hard drives (1 80 gig Maxtor and 1 80 gig Seagate drive). Each device is connected to the 2 IDE ports on the Sonnet card individually. Since installing the Sonnet ATA card and the two new drives, I have been receiving Random crashes and freezes with the computer. I've tried everything to try and solve this problem, but the problem continues to persist.
Every time I boot the system up after a crash, I notice that there is a rescued items folder in the trash with a lot of cache and temp files from various program (Internet Explorer, Quark Express, Entourage...) Since Noticing that the cache and temp files would end up in the trash after a crash, I thought the problem was memory based, and tried removing ram and replacing it to no avail.
I've tried different bios on the Sonnet card to no avail. I've Tried playing with the jumpers on the hard disk drives, zapping the cuda switch, wiping my hard drives clean and installing a new operating system, rebuilding the desktop, zapping the PRAM, changing IDE cables... Nothing seems to work. I'm at a hopeless crossroads with the machine now. I even removed the battery to reset the system.
I was wondering if anyone on this list ever heard of or experienced problems of a similar nature with a G4 and a Sonnet card. Someone suggested upgrading to OSX to solve the problem, but since this is a work computer, it's not available as an option to me. Does anyone have any suggestions?
-Alan the Hopeless G4 User
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