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OS9 Frozen Desktop
Syntho:
Got the error again. I paid a lot for that damn card, almost as much as the system itself. I'm gonna try re-seating it and testing a few times. I don't know if that's what's causing it to freeze.
Syntho:
Ok turns out the card is fine, it wasn't seated properly. Everything passed on the diagnostics and indexing is off w/1GB ram. It took a few times to get it seated right so I'm hoping that was the problem.
I'm still running that old system, I didn't buy another. It seems that if there's a problem that you can run into on a Power Mac and OS9, I've run into it. Mac hell for months...
I'll report back when/if it freezes again.
MacGuy:
Syntho,
I don't have a solution for you but really understand your frustration.
I have owned 3 Power Mac Mirrored Drive Door, if that is your Mac you are having problems with, all three were factory defects. It was either a mother board or RAM. On one Apple supplied me with a replacement mother board at no charge. They would run for a couple of hours and then have a heart attack suffering from the kernel attack which as you know is real ugly on screen with all that white type on a black background. When I ran that diagnostics CD for at least 24 hours it concluded that RAM was the issue in each of those Macs. I still don't get it how one stick is good in a machine but then the same stick is bad in another machine.
My solution was to stop buying those high end GHz MDD models and go for the lower speed models: for some reason they were reliable.
Syntho:
Funny you mention that, I was actually considering getting a Quicksilver to see if it was more stable. Every time I make a new jump in CPUs these days, I make sure it's a really large jump since there isn't too much difference in a few mhz. Back then I remember upgrading my CPUs only 300mhz at a time and the difference in speed was huge.
I think the fastest quicksilver is a 933, right? I may pick one up someday. Right now my MDD seems to be stable, so I'll keep my eyes out for a cheap backup 933 QS.
supernova777:
--- Quote from: Syntho on April 19, 2014, 12:14:53 AM ---I think the fastest quicksilver is a 933, right? I may pick one up someday. Right now my MDD seems to be stable, so I'll keep my eyes out for a cheap backup 933 QS.
--- End quote ---
the fastest quicksilver is a dual 1ghz!
personally id first try buying fresh new matched ram like i attempted to draw focus + attention to in this thread:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=797.msg3642#msg3642
especially since the cost of DDR1 PC2700 ram wouldnt be so bad
because most people want ddr400..
perhaps that may be the source of your problems tho if you are using DDR400 ram in the mdd? Diehard eluded to problems with a cube, not clocking down the ram from PC133 to PC100.. i have another pc that takes ddr1 and it wont accept anything above pc2100, if i put in even a pc2700 piece it beeps at me and wont boot.. or perhaps you are using 1GB modules? which happen to work, but were not the original reccommended size.. if aiming for 1gb perhaps its best to try 4 x 256MB pc2700 ddr
this is what ive put into my MDD 867 recently.. having had it configured previously with a single !GB DDR module...
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