Chris:
Hmmmm.... yes..... well.... it never occurred to me to suspect the RAM.
TechTool Pro has never faulted the RAM.
The dozen 128 Meg DIMMs from Velocity Upgrades have been in this box simply forever, or since that fateful day two or three years ago when Velocity Upgrades accidentally published an ad offering them for $16 or $17 each.
They played nicely together with the four 604e processors installed and have not been a problem with the G4 Sonnet card, and I have experienced NO anomalies under System 9.1 or 10.2.6.
The ONLY time it happens is when I run OSX 10.2.8, which is installed on a 7.45 Gig partition (First partition) of an 80-gig Maxtor ATA drive.
"Frequent" C.O.D.'s works out to two or three times per week on a civilised machine that otherwise has not frozen or crashed since before Christmas.
M
Thought of upgrading to 10.3? given it seems to be only 10.2.8 perhaps there lies your troubles. Or dare I say it reinstall 10.2.8 as an archive and install - painful I know but perhaps you have some additional software/service(s) that are causing the random COD under 10.2.8. What build did you install? Early versions had some documented issues that Apple resolved with later releases
I know if I leave Vue scan running in background on B&W G3 o'clocked to 450 it causes irratic behavior, often requiring a force quit of vue scan (need to use it as have Agfa SCSI scanner and can only talk this way under 10.3.x), sometime restart required. But otherwise machine is very stable, not as many would have you believe uncrashable (blame not enough RAM and fat apps)
Perhaps try, if you suspect RAM pulling a few maybe 4 at a time (seeing as you have shed loads or RAM) and see if that improves it. Or even reseat the RAM, particularly if it's been installed for some time.
Just some ideas anyway
Simon
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