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Started by Ted Byrne
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
Help! Crashes on new G3 /DT Desktop
Author: Ted Byrne
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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Help! Crashes on new G3 /DT Desktop Can anybody suggest help? I have a brand new, Sys 8.0, PowerMac G3/266 DT DeskTop (Not the tower). It's got 96k Ram installed. It suffers... No, I suffer from... Unexpected crashes. There were also odd noises associated with the clock sounding on the quarter hours. So I deleted that feature. The crashes have some pattern... 1> I induce them. They always occur while I am performing some operation within an application (almost any application) which seems to involve HD in/out. 2> They normally involve the screen going blank except for the command bar at the top and a blinking of the cursor along with a 'clicking' sound from the Power PC unit. 3> I must reboot, nothing else will stop what appears to be some sort of loop that's been kicked in. They have occurred three to four times a day since I installed the system last week. They occur in virtually all applications, including desktops applications. They occur whether or not I have a mail server running in the background. Indeed, they occur whether one or a number of applications are running simultaneously. While there was a little trouble with the ZIP drive at first.... The problem appears unrelated to that. The problems occur whether or not disks are loaded in the Zip, the floppy or the CD drives. There are no external SCSI devices, nor any input units other than the factory keyboard and mouse. I feared the crashes were induced by either Ram Doubler or Speed Doubler so I disinstalled each... No difference. I do have the Nortons installed and it does have some sort of automatic diagnostic. Could that be a conflict? I've run an HD diagnostic and found nothing, except for a little fragmentation. It does no good to play with the extensions since it takes so long between booting and a problem occuring ..... a test would be interminable. Help.... Any suggestions. I h ope to God this is not a hardware problem. I can't afford to send this thing off just now. Someone? Anyone.... You can e-mail me above, and I will send my first born to the person with the best advice.... Haven't called Apple yet, I find the time wasted in the queue... unbearable. Ted
Re: Help! Crashes on new G3 /DT Desktop
Author: Chris Boot
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <tedontheradio-ya023580002502980855140001@news.redrose.net>, tedontheradio@redrose.net (Ted Byrne) wrote: AAAH, I'm not quoting so much text... anyway, It looks like a major hardware problem. Apple's warranty should fix it for no bucks. What is the interval between clicks? is it a matter of miliseconds, 1/2 seconds or what? try ripping out the zip (joke). It could be the HD head hitting something (that's bad!). I'm not shure. -- Chris "Vampire" Boot bootc@worldnet.fr
Re: Help! Crashes on new G3 /DT Desktop
Author: Cooper
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
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Ted- If you really, really mean 96k of RAM and not 96 megs...then I know what your problem is. I'm currently running system 8.2 and it takes 16.5 megs of RAM (I currenty have 150megs of ram on my powermac). So, if you're serious about the RAM, either someone screwed you over when you bought the machine, or you have a hardware problem. eg. weak/broken connection of RAM chips, etc..
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