I have a Starmax 3000/180.
Vimage G3 L2 Cache upgrade card.
Running OS 9.1.
Coherency Installed in Startup items folder.
Keyspan USB PCI card-2 ports
Asante Ethernet PCI card -1 port
IX 3D Ultimate- Rez 1.0.1-2 monitor connectors
Orange Micro PCI Firewire Card-3 ports
The machine works fine (with or without Coherency) with any three cards any combination, any PCI slot.
When I first added the Firewire to the set (making 4 cards) the firewire hard drive would crash the computer.
I switched the cards around, with the Orange Micro in slot 1. The drive then worked for several months.
All 4 worked fine.
Then few weeks ago I was setting the Appletalk Control panel to the Ethernet port.
The computer crashed completely.
Thereafter Ethernet Port selection in appletalk would crash computer.
Tried switching cards around.
Problem with ethernet port selection went away but computer became very unstable:
Spellcheck in MS word crashed computer Pressing Begin in Tech tool Pro v 3.0.7 crashed computer Downloading email using Eudora crashed computer Copying files from internal drive to firewire drive in finder crashed computer Trying to connect with crossover cable to powerbook crashed computer
My guess: seems like any time it accessed anything on PCI card crashed computer (although why word crashed is beyond me).
When I remove a 4th pci card problems go away.
Coherency does not solve this problem.
Happens no matter what drive I start up from. Did clean install 3 times. No improvement.
So right now I'm using the Starmax without the IX 3D Ultimate- Rez, with 256 colors on one monitor (instead of millions of colors on two monitiors).
Given that it worked for several months before, with all 4 cards installed, without Coherency installed, I imagine it could work again.
Any ideas how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated? -- Daniel Morales 3049 Johnson Ave. Bronx, NY 10463 718-549-9228 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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