Mike, I have a Performa 6400 w/ sonnet G3/400 1MB cache 136MB RAM 10Gig ATA HD 32X CD SCSI HD in the top bay VooDoo 2 card in PCI slot Global Village in Comm slot OS 9.1/8.6
Pretty stable for 9-10 months Sounds like you have been running the 2 64Mb RAMs and Sonnet card for a little while, I.e. loading third party soft ware, etc ? Does the machine start up from a cold start, alright ? Alan Miller suggested you push the 'Cuda button' , first check that sonnet card is well seated in the L2 slot, support the MoBo from underneath w/a magazine or some such, when you push the card into the slot. My card went in w/a definite 'click'. But not all do so. Check the RAM also... Then for sure do the Cuda thing. Looking at the MoBo w/ Plastic case piece to your left, the Cuda button is at the left end of the DIMM slot closest to the L2 slot. A small silver square (approx. 1/4 inch square) w/ round, flat, gray button in middle. Hope you're wearing an antistatic thingy !!! Is there clearance between the Sonnet card's heat-sink and the Ram module next to it ? Some chips are thicker, and can be heat issues! Mine has barely an 1/8 inch. That seems to be OK, Metronome usually says 33 to 39 Celsius Put the MoBo back in. Cable up. Power up any peripherals. Boot the 6400, *BUT* hold down the 'shift' key (extensions off). When it's done doing,(fingers crossed) Go apple menu, control panels (let it open), Open Extension Manager, At the top left "Sets" drop down menu, make "Mac OS 8.6 Base" active Close Cntrl Pnl, RESTART from Extensions Manager Should boot w/603e processor, and only Apple C.P.s/Extnsns Run Disk FirstAid ... If you have TechTool 3.0.3, (Lite version is free download from TechTool site), start it up, have it 'Zap the PRAM' (pushing the Cuda already did the Pram , I think, but to make sure of a deep clean...) Have TechTool Delete and Rebuild the Desktop. The mouse will be slow and date/time incorrect (due to Pram zap), Reset both in control panels. If you don't have TechTool, forget the PRAM, but do RESTART, and hold down Apple (command) key w/ Option key to Rebuild the Desktop You didn't say what Version of Sonnet's extensions/driver you have ? Go to sonnettech.com and check for new downloads for your card. Install them. Now open your startup disk, open system folder, open extensions (disabled), find Sonnet's extension, (mine says Sonnet Processor Upgrade and is version 1.4.6), Highlight the extension, Now type a space (space bar) in front of sonnet. Doing this, sets the extension to load before almost all other extensions and control panels. After you type the space and hit enter, the Sonnet extension should go to the top of the list. Close the windows. Go Apple dropdown, Control Panels, open Extensions Manager ... Go File dropdown, select Duplicate set ... dialog should say "Mac OS 8.6 Base copy", add "+Sonnet" to name, click OK, when E.M. resets, find Sonnet extension, click it's box to add to set, then RESTART. This should give a clean set to reference from w/ no conflicts. Check Profiler for Sonnet G3 w/cache running, check for 136MB Ram ... Try Restart from "Special" menu, if OK, try power button on key board, Restart. If the machine seems stable, add control panels/extensions (preferably ONE at a time) , Restart, etc ... Try a game, type a page, print something when adding, to test stability. Keep a chronology. If problems start, you have reference point. Finally, check out http://www.zone6400.com/ ... And an apology for this extremely long WANNABE (non)tech manual I HTH ... Jerry humiliation is an unpleasant, but necessary part of the human experience ... > My wife has a PM6400, running OS 8.6, into which I've just installed two > 64MB RAM sticks, bringing her total RAM to 132MB (8MB soldered to the > MoBo); and I've just installed a Sonnet Crescendo L2 G3/400MHz/1MB > cache) accelerator. > > Both "About This Computer" and "Apple System Profiler" show all the RAM, > and the L2 G3 accelerator card shows up at startup. > > The problem: whenever we try to "Restart" from the "Special" menu, or > from a "Restart" button on any software installer (most recently an > updated printer driver for a HP935C), the screen goes black and stays > black; it will not re boot with a three fingered salute, nor with the > power key on the extended Apple keyboard. The only way to regain access > to the computer at all, it to shut it down with the "on-off" button on > the back of the tower to the right of the video connector, and start it > up by pushing the "on-off" button a 2nd time. > > Mike Simon > [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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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
