Re: Just got ZipGSX - issues - help!

[warnken@arena.cwnet.com (Sandra Warnken)]

gmauslander@hotmail.com (Forrest) wrote in message news:<W1W29.10216$Ue6.6352@news.webusenet.com>...
> Somewhere, Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:
> 
> >The Focus has always been like that.  
> >But the dumping to monitor after trying to reboot is new with the 
> >ZipGSX.  I am having more trouble with this config.  Booting other 
> >drives is fine.
> 
> "It's not a bug, it's a feature..."
> The Focus/ZIP combo acts the same way here.  (Though I never noticed 
> before.)  So, set the Focus as your startup drive, PR# to boot other 
> slots, reset to reboot.

What I suspect is you are over-heating with all those power draining
cards and the zipgsx is getting flaky from the heat.  Try using your
machine with the top off the cpu and see if works better.  I also
reported some time ago that my new Focus card didn't like slot 7. I
tried it in two other cpus both ROM3 and ROM1 and slot 7 did not
work any better.  I exchanged the Focus for a different one and had
the same problem.  It works fine in slot 6.  I have an Apple High Speed
SCSI card running in slot 7 now with Focus in 6 and a Transwarp running
at 12.5mhz, Grappler+ in 1 and Quickie in 2.  I use a Buggie power
supply for a little more available juice and to keep the interior
running cooler with a Kensington System saver.  I still run into
problems with the accelerators getting too hot when the temperature
runs in the triple digits.

Sandy