Hello, Nobody has responded yet, so I will give my experience/suggestions.
I would suggest that you either have a bad dimm or inproperly seated dimm. At no time whatsoever would the computer show anything but 128/258/384 or 512 MB of ram (if you have 4 128's). If you are seriously getting 448 - 480, pull them out and start testing them. Ramometer 1.3 (newertech?) is what I used. I bought a second hand PowerWave (thanks all who replied to help me identify it) that was glitchy. Lots of random crashes. Turns out that 2 of the 32Mb dimms were bad. Ramometer has a 'run contiuously' mode and it should never give errors unless there is really a memory problem. I had to swap out chips and reboot several times to track down the faulty dimms (no error reporting on which dimm is bad unless you know how to calculate the memory address back to the motherboard dimm). I had similar boot problems and they have since gone away. I can now use os 9.12 and os X 10.1.5 on this machine with G3/400 288Mb Ram. If you cannot find ramometer, Techtool light may be able to detect it. Otherwise, email and I can stuffit and send it to you. Greg Olson >Folks, > >I *still* cannot remedy the subject error on startup. Before I take it >in for professional help, I thought I would try one more time in hopes >that one (or more) of the List Gurus has experienced/heard of this >error. > >Configuration above factory: > >G3 500 Sonnet >512 MB RAM (4*128) (448 - 480 recognized at any particular time) >Keyspan USB 1.1 (2-port) >18 GB Seagate HD (SCSI: 1; still using original 2 GB @ SCSI: 0) >OS 8.6 > >My trouble started with a seemingly innocent addition of a PCI firewire >card from OWC. This was placed in my last available PCI slot, but was >never recognized by Apple System Profiler. Perhaps I over-stepped the >available PCI power consumption? The other slot has the USB card that >works just fine. > >At any rate, I decided to try plugging a QPS CD-RW (16-10-40) into the >Firewire card in the hopes that I could get the firewire card working. >Now, my PowerCenter Pro has developed a "bus error". Immediately upon >the "Welcome to Macintosh" startup screen, I get a sys crash with the >nefarious "bus error" staring at me. I took out the firewire card, >reset CUDA, done a clean install on the startup drive with OS 8.5 then >up to 8.6 and have zapped the PRAM, and installed a fresh 3.6v >battery. The machine will only boot successfully on CD (after zapping >PRAM for two cycles, and then immediately pressing >del-option-command-shift - thanks Michael) which is how I was able to do >the clean install. Incidently, the aforementioned remedy only works >about half the time. The RAM recognition noted above is definitely odd, >and I plan to try combinations of the chips next. But after that?? I >am at a loss. > >Could this "bus error" be a physical error? I was careful removing the >firewire card from the PCI bus, and I CAN use the machine with a >bootable CD. The only documented causes that I can find point to >corrupted sys software or possible extension conflicts. Sure would hate >to lose this puppy..... > >Any help would be very appreciated, > >still mac-less in Raleigh, > >John > > >-- >Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > >123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > >Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> >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]> >List archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > >Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! ><http://www.applelinks.com> -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
