Re: Focus Card Problems

[warnken@nospam@mother.com]

Tony said he was going to install a Transwarp in his machine and check the the new cards out.  On my machine I suspect it is something in the newer Focus, because my old one still boots from slot 7 like it always has.  Or from slot 6. The new one doesn't boot from 7 but works in 6. It didn't matter if the TWGS was on or off.  Seems fairly definitive that way.    One thing I didn't do was insert the SCSI card in the alternate slot when I tested the old one. I always have an AHSCSI card in either slot 6 or
 7.  
 
As to power draw, Tony said my buffered grappler (slot 1) pulled more juice than the Focus.  Since it doesn't speed up printing I changed back to the regular grappler.  And I have that 200 watt Buggie power supply.  That doesn't do any more for my machine than the regular power supply.  Maybe jumpers would help.  
 
I like the Focus, because it does go faster than the SCSI devices.
 
Rubywand Wrote:
 
 >>  If a system has an accelerator card and/or is fairly stuffed with Slot
cards, then, fattening power supply leads and adding motherboard power jumpers to Slots 3 and 7 should eliminate a lot of noise. This could fix some Focus problems.<< 
 
What is a power jumper.  
 
 

Sandy