> >>> >>>> -- >>> >>> Eric, This sounds like a RAM issue. How much is installed and is it >>> interleaved? >>> Sorry, I'm not familiar with your setup can you describe it at the >>> time >>> of install ? >>> IDE or SCSI, PCI slots, Processor and video card and so on. it would >>> help. >>> >>> Also, what version of XpostFacto are you using? >>> >>> I personally have not had success with IDE, I installed to SCSI and >>> "cloned to IDE" >>> with Carbon Copy Cloner or Apple Restore. I have a 2.1 & 9.1 IBM SCSI >>> drive to >>> initiate, then I move to my larger IDE drives. > > >> Thanks for your reply. I used the latest version of XpostFacto 2.2.4. >> I have a Sonnet Tempo A66 PCI card to which the IBM 40GB drive is >> attached. It is not a ram issue as the Sonnet G4 Pram restore floppy >> boots with 490 MB of ram OK. If it were ram problems, the floppy > > would not boot the S900. All the ram is the same. snip > But this is as far as we > > can go as no amount of CUDA pressing or op.-Apple-p,r keys pram >> zapping brings any change in this corpse. >> Eric > >Eric, Don't be so quick to say it isn't a RAM issue... >OSX is way fussy about RAM and has given me endless problems with RAM. >I would have thought you'd have seen my posts about this by now. >What I have learned about RAM issues with OSX and my UMAX J700/S900 >machine. >CPU speeds over 300mhz will result in having to restart several times >in order to boot if you have any weak or slightly flacky ram. The fact >that it boots and runs fine in OS 9.x will make you think it must be >something other then RAM. I did testing with Gauge Pro and moved the >RAM around to different slots and removed a couple of old 8mb ram chips >that may have been causing the problems. Things seemed fine the next >major problem was when I updated to 10.2.1 . I could boot and start up >once then on the next boot it would hang at some point in the startup. >Running Disk Warrior and Norton Disk Doctor from OS 9.x fond all sorts >of disk corruption etc. I finally bought a new hard drive thinking that >would be the fix. Well no it wasn't. Gauge pro sometimes showed errors >in testing RAM but I couldn't be sure which ram chips it was. This was >driving me nuts. I thought for sure it was new machine time. I decided >to take my RAM to a local ram shop which lucky for me has one of those >expensive testing machines. To my surprise all of my ram was fine but >two chips which weren't labeled turned out to be FPM and I had been >interleaving them with EDO chips and I had one older chip that was 70ns >speed which they suggested I not use as it often causes problems at CPU >speeds over 300mhz. That fixed my problems to my amazement ! > If all your ram is the same then likely you can't run it with out >interleaving it...Oh but you can. Just for example if all the slots are >full remove all the A or B slot RAM and just run it with the opposite >slots full. RAM which causes problems when interleaved will often run >ok when not. > I can't say if ram is your issue or not...but it is worth looking into >based on my experience with OSX for over 2 years now since the >development days before the beta. All it takes is one small thing that >can be hard to track down. RAM and the CDROM player have been the >biggest issues with OSX on UMAX machines. In the early days only an >APPLE CDROM player would install OSX. This has changed back and forth >with some versions of OSX installing from most any CDROM player . Best >of luck. Will S >
Three of the sticks in the machine that failed were unknown. All the rest were EDO. It may well have been a ram issue. After my misfortune, I'm testing ram on 1 S900 with Ramometer and so far I GB has passed 1000 cycles. The other S900 had a bad stick which may have come from using an untested stick from the chaos that surrounded this sorry tale. So I will do the Jeff Ram Sandwich protocol and so far we have 656 MB in test and call it a night. Eric -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
