Re: burned and crashy

["Allen Bong" <sfbong@tm.net.my>]

Sounds like a power-supply problem.  Some of the electrolytic capacitors in
the PS are leaking, I guess.  If the IIgs had been left unused for a long
time, this could happen.  Try to get another PS to confirm.

The unstabilities could be due to the cable size between the PS and the MB
were too small.  I remember reading in the FAQ that you have to thicken the
cables as you are having so many cards in the slots.

Allen

<warnken@mother.com> wrote in message
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> I checked this ROM3 system out before I installed the cards.
> It ran fine.  I added a TWGS (upgraded to 12.5MHz), Ramfast,
> 4 meg RAM card.  I ran this setup for a while and it was stable.
> One day I turned it on and went downstairs to do something.  I
> came back about 20 minutes later to smell something acrid
> coming from the machine. There wasn't any smoke. just bad smell.
> I looked and couldn't locate a place that the smell was coming
> from, though it seemed to be in the middle of the cards rather
> than the outside slots.
>
> The cpu system tests good, the TWGS self test is good, the Ram
> card tests good.  I put a different Ramfast in.  I added a
> Floptical drive and a IOMEGA drive.  It boots from either to
> system 6.0.1, but is unstable. I added the high density
> controller card and drive.  It'll boot from that too, but
> is unstable.  I've booted from system 5x on the 3.5" drive.
> It's unstable.  Sometimes it crashes before it finishes booting.
> Sometimes I can do something with it before it crashes.  Any
> suggestion where to look?  Or is it easier to get another cpu
> and start over.
>
> Sandy
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