On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Robert P. McAllister wrote: > 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. > >
After sending the original message to the list about my problems, I found out that the 9600 was even more picky about where I moved the ATA card to. I had moved it down to where it was one slot above the video card. After that, I was lucky if the machine stayed running even 5 minutes before locking up. I tried several things. Of my 896MB of RAM, 128 of that was made up of 4 32MB DIMM's, while the rest was 128's I had added. I removed the 32MB ones. Didn't really think this would work, as it never gave me problems before, and, it didn't; It still locked up. I finally ended up returning the ATA card to it's original slot. All is well again. Weird. So now I guess I just have to pray that the kernel panic thing doesn't happen again. :P Stace -- 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
