Re: transwarp weirdness

["Deacon Blue" <arett@gmx.net>]

How about rearranging card order!

I had the same behaviour when running a Focus-drive in slot#3, moving it to
slot#1 seemed to fix it. Don't ask me why!





"Ben Zotto" <zotto.NO@SPAM.fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
news:9ar675$ct7$2@news.fas.harvard.edu...
> Hi all,
> I have a IIGS setup with a Transwarp GS (rom 1.5, stock cache)
> plugged into slot 3.  I get mostly great, troublefree performance
> from the system, but every few days, the system will go funky on
> me, producing the following types of symptoms:
>
> - hanging while booting system 6.0.1
> - crashing to the monitor during booting
> - displaying unnecessary screens about appleshare fsts, drivers etc
> during bootup.
> - ...and then crashing to the monitor.
>
> These things all happen arbitrarily and with no rhyme or reason.
> Then, after some futzing and sweettalking, the iigs will be completely
> normal again.   This is NOT caused by RAM, the SCSI card or hard drive,
> the power supply (i've tried 3), any particular disk (although prodos 8
> software always seems fine; it's gs/os or p16 stuff that gets weird),
> heating/uptime effects, or system speed.  It's totally random, and
> eventually it just starts working fine again with no harm done.
>
> The system self test passes,the TWGS selftests pass, and Claris' memory
> exerciser passes.  (Occasionally during a funk, the system diagnostic will
> fail on something random, like the 1/4s interrupt (?) or something).
>
> I figure this must be caused by the Transwarp somehow (symptoms did not
> occur before I installed it), but it's entirely non-consistent.
>
> Anyone have any hints or thoughts before I try to find/swap in a different
> motherboard? (About the only variable I haven't switched yet)....
>
> Thanks!
> Ben
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