James S Jones wrote: >Like your 8500, I am now confused. How, if your 8500 won't start up, >are you running NUM from your booted hard drive and having problems >with Netscape 7? >
because it will boot up with a forced reboot. > >Three more things to consider: > >1) Did you remove the on-board L2 cache? The Sonnet has it's own cache >and the problems you're describing can be caused by having the >original, on-board cache still installed. > Yes, the L2 cache was removed. >2) Memory interleaving. The Sonnet upgrades don't support memory >interleaving, yet with your configuration, some of your memory has to >be interleaved. > I was confused about this too since the manual says to interleave. I didn't see anything about Sonnet upgrades not supporting interleaving. But I have 6 chips all the same so I would say it is interleaved. >I don't have a solution for this one, although you >might put 2 of your old DIMMs back in, provided they're at least 2K >refresh. Or, for troubleshooting, you could pull 2 of your 6 new DIMMs >and fill all 4 slots in bank A or bank B and leave all 4 slots in the >other bank empty. If this proves to be the problem, I'd refer you to >Sonnet tech support for a solution. > I hate opening this box, but will give adding some old ram a try. Although I have no ideahow to tell 2k from 4k refresh. > >3) Make very sure the processor card is fully seated. It's harder than >you might think... If it's in all the way, the spring on the plastic >processor card retaining clip will meet with virtually no resistance. > > I don't think the problem is with the G3 card. That seems to be working just fine. With all the info I'm getting I think it is a ram problem. Linda -- 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
