Re: Is my GS having a stroke? :)

[gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester)]

In article <dwellman.0o2j@amiganet.chi.il.us>, dwellman@amiganet.chi.il.us (Dan Wellman) writes:
>Hi folks..
>
>I recently have installed 64k cache into my Zip GS 8Mhz accelerator card,
>and ever since I've been getting strange errors..
>
>What happens is that when I turn on my GS, the computer will occasionally
>randomly hang at any point from showing the thermometer to when I have the
>Finder first appearing on the screen.  
>
>My boot partition seems ok, I've even tried booting with out inits at
>this time, but it continues to randomly crash..
>
>HOWEVER, once I let the computer warm up for a while, it seems to work fine..
>No random crashes or hangs... 
>
>I've tried making sure the cache is seated correctly, and it is..
>
>My question is, before I rip out the chips and re-install my 8k cache chips
>or even reinstall the 2.8 Mhz 65816, has anyone had this problem, and
>are there any suggestions on what could be wrong?
>
>Thanks so much! :)
>

Dan,

	I had/have the same problem, but mine started appearing before I
installed anything.  I think the power supply is slowly dieing.  Since I live
were it is warm most of the time (we have not lite up our heater this winter
and had to run our AC on Christmas day), I just turn everything on, hit OA-ESC,
go get a drink/snack/yell at kids/clean litter boxes or something for about
five mintues and continue the boot.  All is then well.  I intend to replace the
power supply sometime in the not distant future.  BTW - My GS now has 4M of
memory, APPLE SCSI, and 10/64 ZIP and the problem seems no worse/better than
before.

	The other problem could be that the CPU board is going west, but then I
would expect crash at random times, not just when cold starting.