Crash, Crash, Crash!! |
November, 24, 2002 2:19 PM |
rrsears |
I don't know what's been going on, but I am getting tons of crashes on my 7500 500Mhz G3 running OSX 10.1.5 (XPostFacto 2.2.4). It crashes while I'm in a browser, using my Mail app, while it's on a screensaver, etc., etc., etc. The system totally locks up like it did with OS9 forcing me to restart the computer. I can't even force quit the app. I ran the fsck utility and it showed no problems. I trashed preferences. Does anyone have any suggestions (other than buy a new computer, which I would if I had the money.) I'm going crazy!! Thanks! Rick |
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I can confirm |
November, 28, 2002 1:33 PM |
naturist |
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that L2 cache enablers can cause this. I have a 7600 w/ 400MHz G4 Carrier ZIF card and 896 Mb of RAM. It ran fine, solid as a rock under 10.1.5 with the XLR8 L2 software. When I upgraded to 10.2.2, I discovered that the XLR8 software no longer worked. I installed Ryan's L2 enabler, then took a look at the PowerLogix software, and decided to try it. But I didn't uninstall Ryan's enabler. Big mistake. Random crashes in various software, crashes that completely froze the system. After looking into the bad RAM issue and finding that no matter what ram DIMMs were in the machine, it behaved the same, I stumbled upon a work-around until I remove one of the systems: after startup, I use the PowerLogix software to turn the L2 cache off, close the PowerLogix program, then restart it and turn the L2 cache back on. That seems to have done the job, and the machine has been rock solid all day. I will fix the underlying duplicated enabler software next time I boot into OS 9, since under OS X files belonging to root must be deleted. |
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RE: Crash, Crash, Crash!! |
November, 27, 2002 7:45 PM |
rrsears |
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Thanks to all for your advice. I will look into these solutions. Rick |
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RE: Crash, Crash, Crash!! |
November, 26, 2002 2:12 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Some kind of memory problem is the most likely culprit. However, your L2 cache settings could also be involved--another thread has suggested that some L2 cache enablers can cause symptoms like this. |
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RE: Crash, Crash, Crash!! |
November, 25, 2002 5:49 AM |
nick.ashton |
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Crashes where OS X locks up completely without producing a kernel panic or an application crash dump are often due to memory problems. I note that you haven't changed anything on the machine since before the problem started to happen. Maybe it's worth just pulling out and reseating you RAM modules or running with a reduced number of modules to see if one has gone bad. |
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RE: Crash, Crash, Crash!! |
November, 24, 2002 4:19 PM |
rrsears |
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I have a Sonnet ATA/66 card, a Radeon 7000 and an OrangeMicro USB/Firewire card. The crashing I've been experiencing has only happened with this frequency for the last month or so. Before that, it was fine. BTW, I haven't added anything to the computer for the last couple of months. Rick |
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RE: Crash, Crash, Crash!! |
November, 24, 2002 2:49 PM |
redlarry |
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Do you have any non-factory PCI cards in your mac? Even seemingly "safe" cards can cause crashes. For example, I had to toss my Adaptec Ultra Wide SCSI card because it was incompatible with my Sonnet G4 card, no matter which OS it was in. Sonnet doesn't like to advertise these sorts of things, so I did a search of "adaptec 2940" and "sonnet" on a search engine, and found a blurb about them being incompatible. Try doing a similar search. |
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