asking for opinion: WGS 8150 vs. Radius 81/110 — #10

Post #10 by trag

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 - 18:48
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/asking-for-opinion-wgs-8150-vs-radius-81-110.19480/

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I have started the upgrade, almost finished but ran into a snag. I can not get it to recognize the G3 card and when installed it will only startup with extensions off. The card is a Sonnet G3 266 1 Meg cache. I followed the directions, installed the crescendo 1.44 software, removed cache, processor is seated properly in slot. I ran Norton SystemWorks from the CD and there were no problems. The OS is 9.04 with nothing else installed. The one thing I have not tried is installing a PDS terminator in the G3 card. The directions say nothing about this, but I would assume it still must be terminated? Anyone have any tips?

Do you have a JackHammer card installed? The Sonnet upgrade was incompatible with the JackHammer when it was first released. I think Sonnet solved that later.

Another possibility is that the G3 card has a defective backside Cache. I saw this on a NewerTech card once. It worked fine until an extension enabled the backside cache and then it would crash the computer. Turned out the cache was bad.