At 8:55 PM -0700 7/20/01, Kyle Hansen wrote:
>Andrew Keller wrote:
>
>> Don't pay too much attention to people who go on about needing to use
>> 60ns DIMMS, although there's probably not much difference in price
>> these days. I've had 2 16MB 70ns DIMMS (stock Apple) interleaved
>> since day-one, and with the G3/400. The remaining memory consists of
>> 2 64MB 60ns DIMMS also interleaved. So, before buying too much new
>> RAM, try the 70ns DIMMS first.
>
>Andrew,
>
>I would advise you to be careful of the advice that you are spewing. I am
>full-time Mac Tech and I have done several hundred G3/G4 upgrades to PCI-based
>powermacs. I can tell you from broad experience that some 70ns RAM will bunge
>up your upgrade. I can also tell you that no matter what some half-trained
>phone support person told you...there a few guidelines to troubleshooting a
>faulty G3/G4 upgrade.
>
>1. Remove all your 70ns RAM
>2. De-interleave the remaining Dimms.
>3. Pull the Cache.
>
>I do this for a living and I can say that this has corrected 95% of all
>problems that I have experienced during an upgrade.
>
>Another Note: XLR8 makes the best upgrade carrier cards and Processor
>cards(.) <----note the (period).
>
>Newer, Sonnet, MetaBox all pale in comparison...and yes; In that order.
>Newer being the worst, and Metabox being the best of the runners up.
I wish it was worth retaliating to your obvious, unsolicited, flame
bait. Instead, I'll clarify that the only advice given in the above
paragraph of mine, if you had bothered to read it more than once, is
to try your existing memory before replacing it unnecessarily. Just
my personal experience, I'm not alone.
The so-called "half-trained phone support person" was not actually a
phone support person, and I don't see why training would be necessary
to pass basic product information from one person to another.
Training is necessary for troubleshooting. Your few guidelines to
troubleshooting a faulty G3/G4 upgrade are in reverse order, in
anyone's book.
The expertise you profess throughout your diatribe, within many of
your e-mail's, is effectively discredited by your own carelessly
chosen, provocative words.
Oh, and BTW, I'm still waiting on this one.
At 7:44 PM -0700 7/16/01, Andrew Keller wrote:
>At 5:32 PM -0700 7/16/01, Kyle Hansen wrote:
>>You should NEVER power your monitor from your Mac. Unless you want to
>>decrease the life of your mac by 30% or so. Run the monitor straight to the
>>wall. It reduces wear on your Mac.
>
>I'd love to hear an explanation to this. I'd also like to know how to
>find out the life-span of my Mac, so I can tell if 30% off is OK.
>
>I have a power-strip connected to the back of my Mac. Into this strip
>I connect my monitor, modem, zip drive, hard-drive, and printer. I
>did calculate the power draw in order to stay within the
>power-supply's limit (I hope).
>
>Although this may be irresponsible, it's been working for over four
>years. How many do I have left?
Andrew
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