Thank you for responding to my post... I love this list! I've responded below
your copied replies below:
Speaking of which, did you try reseating the processor daughterboard? It
might be possible that with the time or something else, it might have come
very slightly lose and maybe with the temperature rising when using the
Lombard, it gets to a point where the contacts are loss somewhere between
the daughterboard and the motherboard...
-Laurent.
Yes, when I swapped out the lower RAM chip I had to take out the board and
I made especially sure that it was properly seated when it went back in.
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:06:38 +0800 From: "Antony N. Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Lombard crashing
The cache is fubar. This is a known problem with Lombards :
<http://www.pbzone.com/archive/1002_1thru7.shtml>
Don't expect to be able to fix it (unless its under extended warranty) or you're interested in replacing the processor with either a second hand one (from a scrapped Lombard) or a processor upgrade...
One of mine died like this a few weeks back. Some users have reported their Lombards continue to deteriorate until the point where they won't boot at all.
Cheers, Antony
Antony - this is what I suspected... I knew I'd seen this pop up before but as
we only have one Lombard I wasn't certain. Thank you for the heads up.
Luckily this machine is on extended warranty thru January of 2004 so they
will repair it.... I won't waste my time messing with it any further... Eric
On 03/09/03 09:37, "Eric Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy:
I have a Lombard 333MHz, 192MB RAM, OS 9.2.2. Been running fine for
years. Recently, the end-user reported it began crashing randomly. He
sent it back to me and I've had the same problem. It will run fine for
a while and then just freeze (no cursor movement but the screen stays
on, can't force quit have to reboot using Apple-Ctrl-Power). After
crashing, on reboot I get a message that reads "The built-in memory
test has detected a problem with cache memory. Please contact a service
technician for assistance." When I do a reboot before it crashes, I
typically do NOT get this message. I've reset PRAM multiple times. I
spoke with a genius at the local Apple store and asked if a clean
install was worthwhile or a waste of time. He recommended I do it,
which I did, and it seemed to resolved the problem and then it returned
shortly thereafter. I've tried swapping out both RAM chips from another
working machine to no avail. I am either going to reformat the drive
and clean install another OS 9.2.2 or just send it back for warranty
repair. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed a hardware problem with
the cache or whether it is worth doing a reformat and reinstall of OS 9?
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