Re: A problem with Second Sight

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

juntunen@hotmail.com wrote:

> I have a Second Sight card installed into my IIgs and the other day I went to
> try and use Inwords but it just locked the computer up.
>
> The Quickie portion seems to work fine.
>
> I did disable everything that didn't absolutely need to be their for the
> computer to boot or be there to check out the problems with quickie and
> inwords.
>
> When I try to use Inwords everything goes fine until I release the button on
> the scanner and then I get garbage on the screen.  If I push control-reset
> then I get the Inwords menu again (just like in appleworks), but of course I
> do lose any record of a scan.
>
> Also, is it just my imagination or does the Second Sight card seem to make the
> gs more unstable?  It seems like I have to reboot my machine more often
> because of something or the other crashing.
>
> Well thank you for your time.
>
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 The Second Sight card could very well make your IIgs more unstable. The
Second Sight card draws a fair bit of power and if you combine that with other
cards or a slightly weak power supply crashes can be more frequent. My IIgs
became more stable when I added a heavy duty power supply. I also beefed
up the power leads going to some slots.

    Wayne