on 4/9/04 9:18 PM, Mike at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Got a new PRAM battery today and continued with my new RAM install troubleshooting on my 9500. Successfully fired it up with 3 of the four 128 MB sticks installed non-interleaved. Once up I can open and close windows and applications with keystrokes but the moment I click a window or menu off or a system message with the ADB mouse, it locks.
Anyone?
> Thanks for any and all insights.It's a stock 9500 132 MHz, 1 Gig drive, an IXmicro ix3D Ultimate Rez video card, currently running OS 8.6. The G4 450 and new drive meanwhile are still patiently waiting to get in on the upgrade action.
Jeff Responded:
I would troubleshoot by removing the keyboard from the loop. plug the mouse into the ADB hole and try it.
Try another mouse. Try another keyboard.
OK, I did say, "any and all insights" and eliminating the simple stuff first is a good idea. I have another ADB keyboard but only the one mouse I keep as backup since I have gone to USB on my other PCI Mac. The mouse and keyboard work fine on my other computer. That's good enough for me as I highly doubted my mouse suddenly went bad during the time I was installing new RAM. First thing I did was test the other keyboard and same mouse on this 9500 as well, same results.
I did find, upon further testing, more extensive keyboard actions like closing successive windows (Command + W) will lock the system without clicking the mouse.
It might be helpful for me to point out that even before with the old RAM (4 16MB & 1 64MB DIMMS) my desktop activity was like molasses. After boot the desktop icons would appear one at a time,ever so slowly. If I closed an application the desktop would reset (start out blank) and the icons would again make their slow successive appearances. But the system didn't lock up. I thought new RAM would help.
ixMicro card issues? (The IX Video Control software panel never did work) The control panel always opened up completely blank, nothing but white inside the panel. A driver and control panel reinstall is probably a good idea but... gotta get the machine running stable first.
Chicken, Egg....Egg, Chicken? RAM or video card?
Mike
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