I have a PowerMac 9600/233 with the stock CPU card, two 128MB EDO sticks from OWC, a belkin USB PCI card, a VooDoo3 2000 PCI card, and a VST UltraTek66 board with a 40GB Maxstor 7200RPM drive as a master on one bus and a TDK 32x burner as master on the other. I'm running system 8.6, with updates to OpenGL, GameSprockets, USB adapter support, et cetera all installed from downloads from Apple.
This seems to be a wonderful configuration for me (it's just waiting for one of Newer's 500Mhz G3s...), except for one problem: it is really flaky about running installers. The software that I just copied from my old computer boots and runs with no problems at all (Photoshop, SoundJam MP, and so on), but whenever I run installers, about 25% of the time I get "Error decompressing X, the data doesn't match" messages, and the installs fail. I have tried the following in search of a remedy: disconnecting either of the IDE drives disconnecting all the IDE drives and card, and using a small SCSI disk instead re-arranging and (re,de)interleaving my RAM using just one DIMM (or the other) reseating my CPU card re-arranging my PCI cards frobbing virtual memory replacing the PRAM battery Zapping the PRAM taking out every combination of PCI cards, replacing the video card with the stock TwinTurbo 128 card Going all the way down to a clean install of 8.5, to determine what software is the culprit. The problem is exhibited no matter what software combination I try. All to no avail. So I have this problem with installers no matter what disk I use, no matter what PCI cards I use, no matter what software I use, no matter where or how many of those two DIMMS I have installed. Other than the installer problem, the mac (seems) to work fine: Photoshop starts and runs, Toast burns CDs (at 32 speed even!), and so on, although, occasionally a program will crash (unexpectedly quit) without the finder putting up a dialog to that extent... Does this sound to you guys like I got TWO bad DIMMS from OWC? thanks a lot... -Tyler Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Apple PCI Video Cards from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 Replacement Parts IN STOCK, Apple CDROMs from $19.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
