> From: "Haroldo Mauro Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [PCI] performa 6360
Performa 6360, Crescendo G3/300, Mac OS 8.6, 104 RAM 20G Maxtor HD
It's got this intermittent problem: it freezes half of the time at the smiling Mac at startup. Starting up from the CD give the same results. It might or it might not freeze. So with pressing the shift key at startup. When it starts up OK, it works for a while and then freezes. It froze on Eudora, IE, Word, Pyro, etc. At one ocasion, the Finder quitted unexpectedly even though no one was sitting at the computer/no programs running. When it freezes at startup, it usually freezes again at the forced restart, but if I turn it off for a couple of hours it starts. However, it froze first thing this morning, after being off all night.
The things I did: Trashed Finder preferences Replaced Finder Zap the pRAM, nvRAM, CUDA Disabled AppleTalk Rebuild Desktop Ran Norton
The HD was installed a few weeks ago, initialized with Drive Setup (Mac OS Extended) and Mac OS 8.6 installed. But it had problems before the new disk was installed too.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Harold
Given what you have done, I would now check the RAM sticks. If you don't want to open up the case, at least try Gauge Pro to test, use thousand or more iterations... - if you can before a freeze!
Open the machine and reseat whatever can be reseated, try. Pull all but say one Ram stick (you will need about 16MB min I think) If you aren't sure of the procedure for checking out Ram, ask...
David Elmo
what does "nvRAM" mean, feeling dull today, sorry...
Non-Volatile RAM. It is found on PCI Macs. I don't really know what sort of information it holds, but I read it keeps some information the pRAM does not, on PCI Macs. I might be wrong, though.
I removed one memory module (64M). The one I left is 32M. So it is running on 40M. The Performa started OK and stayed on for an hour or so. Then it froze. It was using about 25M out of the 40 total. I'll test the other module tomorrow.
Thank you.
Harold
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