Re: Freezing IIGS

[Nick <nmarx@ix.netcom.com>]

Back in the days when I had my "Hardware" gs, I had problems with it locking
up... there were two things which were affecting it.  First, one of the ram
chips had a bent pin and was not connecting roperly in the socket.
Correcting that solved most of the problems, but also, my machine seemed to
freeze up a lot when it was over 90-95 degrees outside.  So I bought a
kensington system saver  gs which fit neatly on top of the computer and had a
fan inside which drew air through the gs and out the top.  After that,
everything worked fine.

Dennis Fenton wrote:

> My unaccelerated, ROM 01, IIGS occasionally and inexplicably locks up.
> Sometimes the mouse moves but doesn't do anything. Sometimes I can
> restart, other times the only thing I can do turn off the power.
> I am using GS/OS 6.0.1, a Sirius 8Mb RAM card, and an external SCSI
> hard drive with a RAMFast 256K SCSI card.
>
> Is this something that just happens to GS's a little more often than some
> other computers or is there some simple explanation and solution?
>
> Also, some software, ProTerm 3.1 for example, won't recognize the "B"
> partition of my hard drive. To most programs its no problem.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Dennis