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8600 bus error: possible causes — #13

I have tested the RAM using TekTool Pro v. 3, and though I had one failure, it has passed maybe a dozen times. The documentation says that there can be occasional failures and not …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by trag Fri, 23 Oct 2009 - 20:26

8600 bus error: possible causes — #12

Dennis, don't you belong over on the Larry Niven group? What are you doing over here? Click to expand... I'm not sure exactly what that's supposed to mean. Are you just kiddi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by trag Fri, 23 Oct 2009 - 20:21

8500 G4 Issue — #5

John, that's a reasonable suggestion. However I don't see an option to change the speed. I have reported sizes and speeds, then an option to enable/disable the cache at startup o…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by stretch Fri, 23 Oct 2009 - 19:00

8600 bus error: possible causes — #11

My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essentially, it gets to the…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Fri, 23 Oct 2009 - 12:36

8600 bus error: possible causes — #10

Dennis, don't you belong over on the Larry Niven group? What are you doing over here? Click to expand... I'm not sure exactly what that's supposed to mean. Are you just kiddi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Fri, 23 Oct 2009 - 00:41

8600 bus error: possible causes — #9

My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essentially, it gets to the…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by trag Thu, 22 Oct 2009 - 20:39

8600 bus error: possible causes — #8

I'm not particularly familiar with multiple processors in pre-OS X, but here's my question. If you are multitasking, and have two separate, intensive programs running, wouldn't Ma…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Thu, 22 Oct 2009 - 05:14

8500 G4 Issue — #4

The Sonnet 1 GHz G4 CPU cards come with 2 meg of L3 which is supposed to be able to run at 250 MHz. Since turning off the cache seems to fix your problem, you could also try to run…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by johnklos Wed, 21 Oct 2009 - 23:15

8600 bus error: possible causes — #7

I may investigate this further in due course, as I know that VM will speed up a ppc under many circumstances. Only not yet.... The particular 8600 in question here had previously …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Wed, 21 Oct 2009 - 22:51

8600 bus error: possible causes — #6

The 8600 has nearly 300MB or RAM installed, so I will leave it without VM and hope for the best for now, methinks. Click to expand... Some PPC apps will run more efficiently wi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Wed, 21 Oct 2009 - 16:04

Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #16

The mod will utilize the original color classic speaker once I find an amp of suitable size. Click to expand... Interesting, so you'll be using a low-powered external amp to dr…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 - 05:48

8500 G4 Issue — #3

This is a Sonnet card. No switches. However, CPU Director did the trick. Thank you. It took me a while to hunt down an older copy since the latest release refused to run. What…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by stretch Wed, 21 Oct 2009 - 04:51

Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #15

Mac128, The previous post was a modded plus that had to be aborted due to monitor sizing issues. The mod will utilize the original color classic speaker once I find an amp of suit…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by nextse7en Wed, 21 Oct 2009 - 02:28

8600 bus error: possible causes — #5

Adobe Acrobat 5, Photoshop 5, and Apple Color OneScanner software, among others, are on the machine, and this involves a goodly number of odd extensions required for their use. I h…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 20:33

G4 Mini going to OSX after linux — #27

Your cd drive's entry in the of device tree has just been messed up. To zap the PRAM in this situation on a ppc mini, unplug it from the wall socket. Then, holding the power button…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by theartesians Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 08:14

8600 bus error: possible causes — #4

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 06:25

SE - Crackling noise and blank screen. — #24

Tragically, Gamba took his own life. Wally learned this sad news from Gamba's sister. She has been keeping his site going, as I understand it, although it is unclear for how much l…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 05:41

8600 bus error: possible causes — #3

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by beachycove Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 03:17

PB 180 resurrection — #25

I remember having a problem involving the hard drive not showing up on my PB 180c, too bad it had been sitting there for a good year without fixing itself
68kMLA Troubleshooting by benjgvps Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 03:10

Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #13

The whole mod took me about 50 hours, the machine will eventually support an auto inject/eject iphone dock on the top, I'm working on the mechanism now. The system was build to pu…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 - 01:23

Screwy SMART status? — #5

Replace the drive #1 Maxtor is not the best drive out there. #2 its probally a 40 or a 60 you would probally be better off with a new 120 or something like that i have owned macs …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by NCQU Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 22:07

8600 bus error: possible causes — #2

Extensions Manager is your friend. Disable everything and then add it back in progressively. As a starting point, try turning off Virtual Memory (not just disabling the control pan…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Charlieman Mon, 19 Oct 2009 - 21:03
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