My Reply follows quote. On 14/11/2003 17:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:  

>At 16:02pm -0800 on 11/14/03,  you (Ken), wrote:
>
>>
>> Found the RAM test and let it run for about 400 cycles. No problems noted.
>>
>> Disabled the cache on the xlr8 card. Problem persists.
>>
>> Now my next guess is problem with memory interleaving. Xlr8 book says
>> that this may cause random failures. By restacking the DIMMs I can force
>> no interleaving.
>
>Lets see, after you de-interleave, if it doesn't help. . . .
>
> hmm, are your CDs clean?

CDs? What would CDs, dirty or clean, have to do with system operation? 

>Did you (I don't recall what you said) remove any PCI cards?

Left in the FireWire card. I suppose I could pull it and see what 
happens. None of the error messages seem to indicate a problem with the 
PCI bus.

> How clean is the CD-ROM?
>
>I had trouble with that.
>
>I finally installed a 24X and things have been smooth ever since.

Still not sure how this relates.

> How well did you read the XLR8 page on XpostFacto?
>(I had to look at it a buncha times)

Again, huh? I thought XpostFacto had something to do with running OSX on 
older machines. I am running OS9.1 on this 8500.

Ken

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