After a casual stroll through the archives, I noticed that my post about the Sonnet upgrade processor did not make it to the list, precisely because of the problems I was having with the processor. As a last resort, I emailed Sonnet. The result: about 10% (so their figure) of 1400's with some versions of OS 8.6, 9.0, and 9.0.4 will experience significant problems, especially with sounds freezing the display, strange finder and directory errors, etc. German OS 8.6 apparently is one of the offenders. The solution is to stay with 8.5 or upgrade to 9.1. This occurs with any processor upgrade, not just Sonnet. So now I have 9.1 trimmed down to closely resemble 8.6 as possible, but it still eats 5MB more RAM than 8.6. But at least my computer is functioning again properly, after two weeks of clean installs, running Norton, TechTools, etc. until I was blue in the face... At the same time, I was looking for the postings about soldering some "crystals" to the Mobo to get the 1400 to recognize more RAM....or am I just imagining having read such a thing? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Enter to win a FREE Titanium G4 PowerBook! -- | & CDRWs on Sale! | Save on Mac software -- Shop Software Outlet.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/software.outlet.html> Star Trek Collection: Movies 1-7 on VideoCD, $38.88 from CoolVCD <http://lowendmac.com/ad/coolvcd.html> - - - - - PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
