Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 24, 2003 11:31 PM |
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I'm getting periodic freezes on a 9600, Sonnet 800 MHZ, Sonnet ATA133 with a 80G hard drive and 52X CD R. I've removed firewire and usb pci cards. So the 3 pci cards are the ata 133, ehternet and the 9600 video. I've moved the pci cards around. No change. It freezes with internet explorer displaying news.google.com which has periodic screen updates. No other applications are running. Periodically it freezes. Command Option Escape does nothing. It can run for several hours before freezing or less than 15 minutes. How can this be isolated further? If this can be resolved it will be a very useful system. Does anyone else have a Sonnet 800 and Sonnet ATA 133 running well? PS what is actually happening when the system 'freezes'? Is OSX getting confussed and spinning it's wheels so fast that nothing is recognized or is this a harware issue that actually is causing the processor to stop in it's tracks? Is this an OSX issue? or will this happen with 9.2.2? |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 26, 2003 6:47 AM |
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There was a topic here about the "L2 cache" solution that seems to work.....unfortunaltely you cant search the threads, or it would be easy.... Apparently, some people have had success by re-installing the level 2 onboard cache chip on the mobo. I know it sounds inherently wierd, but this has restored some stability to some machines. There is a posting on XLr8yourmac about this, and some postings here. I have never done this, but someone out there has, and might be able to offer more info..... powderhaus...Thanks for the info bout L3 and the powerlogix CPU Director, on second thought I think I will stay with what I have as there is nothing broken to "fix". :-) |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 25, 2003 6:31 PM |
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See the new topic above for more details: 9600/233 Freeze NOT 7300 Help is so much appreciated. |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 25, 2003 6:26 PM |
lei1 |
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Try removing the 10/100 enet card & using the built-in 10baseT. My Asante 10/100 card still causes my 9600 to freeze if I try to transfer large files. I have no such problem with the built-in. |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 25, 2003 4:24 PM |
powderhaus |
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it could be RAM but probably isn't, we had a topic of over 100 threads on why these random crashes happen, then it just so happened that i decided to change my cache enabler to the older Powerlogix one and my system crashed when ever i did anything. We then later found that the only way it could be crashing so much is the way the cache enabler enables the cache because for some cards it would work fine but for others it would not work, so its a guess and check kinda deal. Also Powerlogix CPU Director can do L3 cache too, i can't say anything else about it and L3 because my chip does not have L3 Cache. |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 25, 2003 4:12 PM |
egonzales21 |
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Using a 9600 upgrade with Sonnet G4 800 and Tempo 133 in lst slot. The Tempo is attached to a Seagate 80Gb drive (used to boot) and both a DVD-ROM and a Pioneer 105 DVD burner. I have no problems with random freezes. Sounds like a problem with the cache or more likely your RAM. I am currently using Sonnet 1.2.6 cache software and using all 128Mb FPM modules, 6 in all, from OWC. Tell us more about your memory setup and what cache enable you are using. Ed |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 25, 2003 11:36 AM |
jseibyl |
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The sonnett 800 uses a level 3 cache, so you are stuck with their software until Powerlogix comes up with their faster chips. I heard a rumor that they are soon, so I will be the first to use the powerlogix software for exactly the same reasons, more tweakability. Does this freeze ONLY happen in IE?? If it does, it is (go figure) a bug in microsoft's software and not the machine. Can you test using Netscape, Safari, or another browser? If the crash happens elsewhere then it is something else. |
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RE: Freeze 10.2.6 |
August, 25, 2003 10:46 AM |
powderhaus |
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What software did you enable your cache with? Seeing as you have a sonnet card it is probably best to use their software to enable your cache. Go get their tune up software and then install it but before you restart reinstall the extensions with XPF. do this all in OSX. Other software to enable the cache are L2Chacheconfig, Powerlogix CPU director (not the older on). all 3 work fine with my card but i use Powerlogix because it was easier to overclock the cache with. (minor performance increase) |
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