[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 7/12/01 3:55 PM wrote:
>
> This machine has kind of been a dud since we got it but now it's gotten to
> the point where we're going to toss it if we can't fix it. I want to try
> one more time.
>
It's crap. Get rid of it. Here's my shipping address...;^)
> We have a Blue&White G3 450 (the version with a serial port) that we
> ordered a while back directly from Apple. We had them pop in an Adaptec
> 2940 SCSI card and SCSI drive in it as we would be scanning all day
> everyday, exclusively on this machine. We were disappointed to see that the
> card was only providing an internal SCSI connection so we bought yet
> another SCSI card (Initio Miles Blue Note) and installed it along side the
> Adaptec card.
>
> So we have just the stock DVD drive and Zip Drive on the IDE chain.
> SCSI Bus 1 is the Blue Note Card and an Agfa Scanner is attached to it at
> ID #4.
> SCSI Bus 2 is the Adaptec Card has the IBM HD (8.5gigs formatted Mac OS
> Standard) on it at ID 0.
>
> The machine also has 320megs of RAM in it.
> We're running OS 8.6 in it because EVERYTIME we install OS9 (5 times now)
> we enter the 7th circle of Hell. (OS9 runs wonderfully on the G4's).
>
> The machine seems perfectly stable and we don't crash except when scanning
> and working in Photoshop. The machine does fine in the morning but towards
> the middle and end of the day Photoshop starts giving "not enough memory to
> create a preview" and or just crashes. That's to say Photoshop crashes, not
> the machine. It definitely seems to me a cumulative process as Photoshop is
> fine until we've been scanning for a few hours.
>
Obviously "not enough memory" indicates memory problems. So...
What version of PhotoShop are you running?
Have you worked with tech support at Agfa?
Do you have virtual memory off (I hope) as PhotoShop has it's own VM scheme?
When you installed OS9 did you go to 9.0.4 or 9.1?
It kinda sounds like you may have defective RAM. Bad RAM isn't always
detected at startup. Have you tried testing them with a utility like
TechTool Pro? You might try pulling one stick at a time and running it for a
day to see if the problem clears up.
-makmac
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