> A.Tuazon wrote: > The reason I got the card was because I believe the faster SCSI port went > belly up last year and I've been using the slower port ever since. Every > time I connected a drive to the faster port and I boot up the machine > nothing happens.
Check your memory. I had a 7600 that acted like that, I thought it was a conflict between my G4 upgrade and the mobo, which put the G4 up on the shelf as a bad purchase (close out Metabox JoeCard). Went with the slower G3 for about 6 months until I decided I needed new RAM, and got a couple of new 128 sticks. When I put them in most of the ram vanished, yet when I installed each stick separately they all worked. I slowly added the ram sticks back and determined that it was some old 8MB sticks I had, so I tossed those, and a couple of 16 meg sticks I had and they system worked a lot better, my internal SCSI came back and my G4 card worked again. It was combination of old flaky 2K refresh ram mixing with new 4K refresh 128 sticks. I bit the bullet and tossed all sticks but my new ones, bought another two to boost my memory up to 512 M and the system worked like a charm after that. ---Bruce Johnson I'm beginning to wonder if this has been my major problem lately, as well. Last year I bought a 9500 (eBay) for $50 and installed the good stuff from my 7500; an XLR8 G3/220, SIIG-133 ATA PCI card and 60G Maxtor drive, and an eclectic mix of RAM: 16, 64 and newer 128 meg sticks. All 12 RAM slots were filled with something, a mix of FPM and EDO. Remember, this worked fine in the 7500 with the G3/220. However, when I switched to the Sonnet G4 it became very unreliable (not to mention that I had to replace my UltimateRes IXMicro video card, incapatable with the new G4...) Many strange crashes and freezes: the ATA drive disappeared when I attempted to update the internal SCSI drive from 8.6 to 9.1 (the ATA also had 8.6 on it and was the boot drive, and so far has been unrecoverable); the machine often wouldn't boot past the startup chine. After much, much experimentation with my installed memory (and odd, sometime-repeatable memory errors using XLR8's memory tester), it seems that the 9500 has become more stable after removing the FPM memory and leaving only the EDO (I don't think it would matter if I choose the FPM over the EDO, it's just that the newer 128 meg sticks (5 total) are EDO, so they're keepers, and the FPM 64 meg sticks go to my girlfriend and the 7500 I gave her). I still have two 16 meg sticks installed, both EDO, but I may deside to give those up too, for the hope and prayer of more stability. The SIIG card still has errors and stops during file saves and writes taking more than a few seconds, but otherwise, the 9500 has become a more stable machine by not mixing memory types. Hope this helps anyone else that has upgraded to a G4 processor card in a PCI machine. ---Alex -- 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
