>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? You can order oscillator crystals no overclock the bus and CPU, and sometime ago someone mentioned something about SMT work to enable more RAM, but that is a rumor, I think. Mad Dog -- 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>
