So I finally pulled the RAM, reset the Cuda, pulled the battery, etc. I'm using 128 meg sticks, right now it seems pretty stable with three of them.
An ongoing problem I have been having was that it would crash when I tried to copy to or from the firewire bus. It froze when I attempted that today, and upon reboot did not recognize my boot disk, and wanted to reformat it! I was able to reboot with a Norton CD, and run Diskwarrior on my boot disk drom another disk. Thank goodness that brought the boot disk back to life.. I immediately backed it up to another drive, and now the machine is purring like a kitten. The firewire card is performing beautifully, it is not freezing, etc. So it looks like maybe I had a corrupted something on my boot disk, as well as maybe some bad RAM. I will run TechTool overnight and see what it finds. My wife calls this thing a FrankenMac. It has a 4 gig IBM boot drive, a 4 gig Viking drive, and a 17 gig I-forget-what-brand fast SCSI with a 50 pin converter, all on the internal SCSI bus. External SCSI has Zip, Jaz, and scanner. PCI cards for USB, Firewire, and an IX Micro UltimateRez video card. Two external drives, USB printer, etc. Getting the video card to work may be my next project. But if I fix that, what would be left to do? While the new Macs look yummy, I really enjoy using older technology. Thank goodness for your help, or I would still be pulling my hair out. Thanks, Fred. Warren Fred wrote: > Hadn't heard anything, so I thought I'd check to see if you've made > any headway...?? -- 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
