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.
Post #9 by H3NRY
| Source Forum | 68kMLA |
|---|---|
| Category | Troubleshooting |
| Post Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2010 - 05:09 |
| Original URL | https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/schrodingers-mdd-g4-dead-or-alive.19950/ |
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