First thing first: Is your ram good? Do you hear the normal 'chime' every time you boot/reboot? goto the newertech website and get Ramometer and run it. Boot with extensions off and then run it in continuous mode. If you get any errors, your troubles are from a bad ram chip. You may have to swap out a chip at a time and run the test again. What version of OS are you running?
Greg >I have rebuilt the desktop recently. Yes, I do have frequent crashes. >I am afraid to defragment the disks, though they are not even >terribly fragmented, since it might not get through it. Norton seems >to think the disks are all fine, all the time. > >I wonder if it is either a problem with the Firewire, or a bus speed >problem, since it predates the Firewire a bit, to have crashes. Last >thing would be that it has some problem that I used to hear called a >"system heap overrun", though I don't know if that is still relevant. >I suspect that since it occurs with programs that use a lot of finder >resources, like: > >These problems predate the Firewire card. However, the corrupt >resources is new. I was unable to install one program, Quicken 2002, >until I installed on another computer onto a zip disk, then ran the >update onto the zip, and then copied it over to my hard drive. > >Even if I unplug the Firewire drive, I still had problems installing >anything on the internal drive. the card was still in the slot >though. Is the slot 1 the one on the top? -- -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
