Hello Everyone, I've been away from the list for just about exactly a year. How time flies. So many changes in a year!
Anyway, last week I bought a DayStar, XLR8 400 mHz, G4 ZIF processor to replace the 266 mHz G3 one that I had in my XLR8 carrier card that is plugged into my S900. The installation of the new processor went easily with no problems, however, attempts to overclock the new one over the 400 mHz were unsuccessful. I was able, using software, to set the bus speed that the processor uses to access the cache on the processor card from the default 200 mHz to 265 mHz. The instructions that came with the processor said to let it run for 24 hours to test for system stability or whatever, to make sure everything was functioning property. They said to give the processor a task such as running Gauge Pro which will continuously test the memory of the machine. I set up Gauge Pro and bang... bang... bang... it reported a multitude of errors in writing and reading my memory. I set the cache bus speed back down to default but that had no effect, the memory errors continued. I haven't had any symptoms of memory problems in the 736 mb. that I installed in an interleaved pattern over a year ago. I haven't had a crash or data loss in all that time. Norton System Works is running in the background, checking at startup and shut down, and never reporting problems. The majority of memory that I have was purchased over a year ago from Velocity Upgrades when they were having those great sales on 128 mb. sticks. I painstakingly did the RAM sandwich technique with all of it, sending back some that tested bad, until I was satisfied that all the memory in my S900 was solid and good. And now with retesting a year later, I am getting so many memory errors. My questions: Can memory go bad, out of the blue, so to speak? Could my original testing methods have been flawed to where I missed the bad memory (I let the Gauge Pro run for thousands of passes)? Could the memory error messages be related to the installation of this new G4 ZIF processor? Could the memory be OK and Gauge Pro be hiccoughing? How do I begin testing to determine which memory sticks are good and bad in order to develop the RAM sandwich outer modules? Do I pull all of the memory out except one stick and test that, one by one? or do I test by pulling one module out at a time and testing the remaining modules as a group until I get no error messages? I'm not going to run any tests until I hear from you all with your power brain ideas for me. Unless this list has changed, this is one of the deepest wells of experience and information available on supermacs and electronics in general. As usual, I appreciate any information, direction, speculation, theory, or past experiences that anyone is willing to offer. Thanks a bunch, Bob Robeson -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
