Re: transwarp weirdness

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

in my case I can only choose slot 3, due to the cable lengths to the CPU
socket. have to read the book again to see if other slots are allowed, but I
suspect I'd lose a function like mouse or comm port. The Focus card in your
case is easier to move around, even between computers if need be.
The idea of swapping cache chips is another I'd like to try, but havn't
found anymore 32K SRAM chips yet. They should be easy to find you'd think. I
have two toasted 486 boards, but unfortunately for me they both contain 64K
SRAMs. hmmmmmmm, now maybe if I cut off the last few pins... !

Mark


Deacon Blue wrote in message ...
>How about rearranging card order!
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>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!
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>"Ben Zotto" <zotto.NO@SPAM.fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
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>> 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:
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>> - 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> I figure this must be caused by the Transwarp somehow (symptoms did not
>> occur before I installed it), but it's entirely non-consistent.
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>> 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)....
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>> Thanks!
>> Ben
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