Stacy J. Dunkle wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a 9600, Sonnet 800mhz G4 card, 896MB RAM, Firewire/USB2 card, > ATA/66 card, with an ATI Radeon 7000 for video, running Jaguar. > > Every once in a while, I get what I guess is a "kernel panic", where I > get the Darwin terminal stuff all over the screen. This has happened > twice now, and both times this has happened, it was pure hell getting > the computer up and running again. > [snip] > > Then just today, I went to plug my external USB2 burner back in, after > having unhooked it to take it to work the day before. I got the kernel > panic. And then it was back to like it was last week, no startup chime. > It was worse this time though, as I had to do the CUDA switch thing > over and over and over again, to no avail. Sometimes I'd get the chime, > but no boot. And simply pressing the CUDA switch wasn't enough; I had > tried getting away with just pressing the switch without unfastening > the top half of the case, undoing the IDE cable, etc.; It sort of > demanded that I undo everything, else no startup chime. (I still don't > understand that, as I don't think there's any sort of switch on the > board that senses whether or not the top half of the case was opened.) > But anyway, just grasping at straws, I moved the Firewire/USB2 card > down a few slots on the PCI bus. Bang, it booted up, no problem. > > I'm not entirely convinced that moving the card had anything to do > with the machine finally booting; I think it's just a coincidence. > Anyone here have any insight on any of this? > > Stace > >
The 9600 can be picky about the order of PCI cards. I have six in mine and it took a bit of juggling before everything got along. Also, PCI Macs in general can be picky about combo cards or USB cards with more than two ports. One thing that sometimes clears up problems is to unplug the computer and remove the PRAM battery overnight to let it reset. -+-+-+- RPM -- 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
