On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:07, G-Books wrote:
From my experiences with Lombards (I have a 400mhz) the freezing and
non-booting could be from a faulty processor.
Is there some kind of pattern to the non-functioning? When it cannot
boot at
all; is that only after it crashes after it starts up & freezes?
It sounds like you're thinking it could be the OS; I think it may be
a faulty
processor card, and/or maybe an overheating one. Would you happen to
have /
access to an extra Lombard processor?
Ivy F.
You could try disabling the L2 cache with some third party software
like CPU director.
In my experience a failed L2 cache will announce itself with a pop up
message on startup, something like:
"The built in memory test has detected a problem with cache memory.
Please contact a service technician for assistance."
It never stopped the computer from starting (once you acknowledged the
message) and it seemed to run fine without the cache.
I expect it might have been slower but never did any benchmarks to
check.
Best of luck.
Andrew in Ann Arbor
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