> Last week I bought a Powerlogic Powerforce G3 400 card for my PowerTower
> 180e. The local used Mac dealer who sold it to me configured the dip
> switches and told me to set the cache at 2:1. I installed it and started
> getting freezes, increasing in frequency. The dealer thought it would be
> my RAM and advised me to ditch a 64MB chip I had bought from MacWarehouse.
> Eventually it was freezing during extension loading, so I brought it in to
> the dealer. He kept it for a day and said he tried everything, including
> leaving the L2 chip in for a change. He simply couldn't get it to work, so
> he gave me my money back. He said that there must be something funky about
> my motherboard. Of course, everything seems to work just fine with the
> original 604e CPU back in.
>
> I am pleased that the problems weren't caused by me doing something wrong
> in the installation and even more pleased not to get stuck with a card that
> doesn't work. On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to upgrade to
> a G3. Doesn't anyone have any idea whether a Sonnet G3 might be more
> stable? Or should I just stop messing around and thank the stars I still
> have a computer that works at all?
>
> Thanks.
> Charles
>
>
Did you try a clean system install...When I installed my powerlogix 400 g3
card in my Powercurve I started experiencing frequent crashes a lot of type
10 errors...I disable my L2 cache that seemed to help and also adjusting to
dip switches helped...it even increased the clock speed while being more
stable...But once I did a clean system install...my problems were gone and
it's worked fine ever since.
Jason
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