To answer a few questions: Hi Eric,
The first suggestion is a luxury I can't quite afford at this time. I could probably pick up a 300mHz zif for $25 just to rule out the carrier being a problem, but otherwise I'm on a budget for the time being. I've trashed the finder and System prefs but did forget the MacOS prefs this time around. I'll give that a try but because I reformatted my drive, and did an entire reinstall, I doubt that's it. Now I haven't tried moving ram around yet. In fact, Will had suggested that to me a few weeks ago. Right now it's interleaved too. Interestingly, a month or more ago, one of my Tall Rams failed so it got removed and problems went away. This was during my previous XLR8 G3 300mhz daughtercard. But yesterday evening I removed the other Tall Ram and my delayed monitor problem at coldstart went away as did most of the symptoms using quicktime player. I almost wonder if these funky Tall Rams may be a slower speed then believed. Unfortunately, removing the One stick didn't fix my overall crashing problem. I just hope that I don't have something else wrong that is eating my ram. I will need to try switching the ram around though. > Sometimes it helps to make a more drastic change by switching the brand of > your processor from XLR8 to another brand. You should be able to find an > equivalent Sonnet board price wise. Have you tried re seating the ram, moving > it around or testing it with Ramometer? I had a similar problem with the Apple > Menu Options Prefs and a clean install helped clear that. Have you tried > trashing the finder prefs, MacOS prefs and system prefs? Good luck. > Eric Ford, Yeah I checked this and put new grease too. Clip is seated properly. Temps are fine because I had installed a little cpu fan on top of the bottom front drive cage and angled the fan towards the cpu. Temp remains a comfortable 40-44� C. I hope I don't have to run this too far below 450 but I guess I can start backing off a little more to see what happens. > Is the heatsink seated properly on the cpu ? The clip has to press the > heatsink in the right spot for it to seat on the cpu correctly. It could be > overheating- you didn't say what the temp. has been. > I have an xlr8 G3 400 that doesn't like to run a bus higher than 52 for some > reason- in OS 9. In OS X I had no problems up to 55. > > -Ford Frederick, Great process of elimination. I'll have to see how I can rule out my carrier being the problem too. > I did the same upgrade. Had the same problems. Tried the board in a 7500, > 8600, 9600 and the ZIF in a beige G3MT and it worked fine. Have a friend that > has an S900. It worked fine in his machine. We took both machines side by side > and took his parts, except logic board and put them in my machine. It still > would not work. So, it would appear as though all S900s are not created equal. > My friend had a 500 ZIF. Switched it for the 450 and tried that in my machine. > Worked fine Thanks, Keep throwing me ideas. Dave -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
