Schrödinger's MDD G4 - dead or alive? — #10

Post #10 by johnklos

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Thu, 3 Jun 2010 - 05:23
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/schrodingers-mdd-g4-dead-or-alive.19950/

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Similar experience with my Sawtooth running a 1.2GHz PLX CPU. In my case the DIP switches which set the buss multiplier evidently glitched and it went to 1.6GHz, which is way overclocked for a 1GHz 7455 (PowerLogix had already overclocked it by 200MHz). It overheated and the symptoms were the same - memory errors, buss errors, and just generally flaky. I'm surprised it worked at all at that speed, but it did work apparently for a week or so before it finally kicked the bucket. I had noticed the fan was running at high speed a lot, but didn't think to investigate until it started crashing. It's possible of course that the bad part is a cache RAM chip instead of the G4.

That sounds like a 1.2 GHz CPU card configured for a 100 MHz bus but in a system with a 133 MHz bus (12 * 133 is 1.6 GHz). But you say it was in a Sawtooth, which has a 100 MHz bus... Strange...