Re: Help please: "stuttering" IIGS

[Chris Morse <chris@cosmicwolf.com>]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:40:58 GMT, "Scott V. McGuire"
<fake@f.a.k.e.net> wrote:

>I've got a ROM 03 Apple IIGs with a Transwarp GS, MicroDrive hard card
>and a GS-RAM Ultra memory card.  Today it started "stuttering" by
>which I mean working for a bit than freezing for a bit then working
>again ... When it unfreezes it seems to respond to buffered key
>presses and mouse movements from when it was frozen.  I haven't made
>any recent changes.  Has anyone seen this behavior before?  I've
>tried: switching keyboards and mice, turning on/off dma on the hard
>drive, lowering the speed from 8MHz to 6.25MHz (by changing the
>oscillator on the Transwarp GS, reversing a change I made over a week
>ago) to 2.8 MHz to 1.0 MHz (via Control Panel).  The problem may have
>gone away at 1.0MHz, but the system was so slow that I'm not sure I
>could tell - and I didn't leave it at that speed very long.
>
>Help appreciated,
>-Scott

One of my computers at work, an Intel Celeron 1.1GHz machine,
exhibited this same behaviour.  Usually after it was left on for a
while (after several days.)   I never did find out what exactly the
problem was; it actually just went away on its own.  It could be a
power-level/power-supply issue.  But this is just a guess.

// CHRIS