on 4/3/03 2:57 PM, John McGibney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also keep in mind that some machines have problems when newer 128meg chips > are mixed with older 64 meg and smaller chips. The refresh rates seem to > cause all sorts of errors. Also some of the 128mb sticks are not compatible > with G3/G4 upgrades. I'm sure the speed of the G4/800 upgrade is > exacerbating things even more. >
When I first installed my new G4/700 card and had nothing but trouble, my first assumption was that it would be one of the problems that had been mentioned; my memory was interleaved, and I had a wide mix of new 128 meg memory modules with lots of old 8 and 16 meg modules (944 megs total, in my 12-slot 9500). But it turned out not to be any of those; apparently some of the memory wasn't seated well enough for the liking of the G4 card, which worked just fine with the previous XLR8 G3/250 card. After all memory was removed and reseated (even the old 8 and 16 megs along with the new 128 megs), the problems went away. I even decided to try my luck and re-interleave the memory, and that does not seem to cause any problems, either. So the only problem appeares to have been the proper seating of the memory, not the mix I have of very old and new memory, nor having the memory interleaved. ---Alex _______________________________________ God Bless America! And the brave men & women who defend her -- 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
