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- From: calypso@stein.u.washington.edu (Kent Shih)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Unpredictable bombs & freezes on SE/30 HELP!
- Keywords: bomb freeze memory logicboard SIMM SE/30
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.184504.15497@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:45:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov16.184504.15497
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- majnun@parrot.in-berlin.de (Albrecht Hofheinz) writes:
-
- >I am desparate! My SE/30 keeps bombing, freezing, quitting
- >"unexprectedly" &c, and I don't know why. I can exclude viruses, INIT
- >conflicts and the like, but I'm not able to localize the problem
- >exactly.
- >
- >More details: I have an SE/30 8-80 which ran fine until a couple of days
- >ago. Then it started to behave weirdly. I bombed (most frequetly with
- >"address error" or "bus error" or "Coprocessor not intalled"), or simply
- >froze in the middle of nothing (i.e., even if I did not do anything,
- >just like that). These errors were totally unpredictable (they could not
- >be reproduced), they increased in frequency, they occurred during
- >startup as well as some time afterwards, in other words, it was
- >frightening.
- >
- >Possible reasons, I suspected: either a SIMM problem, or another problem
- >on the logic board. 4 of the 8 MB of RAM I had installed myself, and
- >used them for 2 years without"major" problems. That is, I did have
- >problems, but was able to solve them. Twice during the past two years,
- >the Mac would not boot and show its sad face instead. By opening the
- >case and clossing it again (not more than that), the problem went away.
- >So I tried to do the same now. I opened it, cleaned it a bit, and waited
- >for the magic result. It worked, for a couple of hours. Then it froze
- >again, and on rebooting showed the sad face, featuring the strings
- > 0000000F
- > 00000003
-
-
- Hey.. I have the same problem, too. Does any one know what's wrong
- on with the HD or the computer itself is wrong..
-
- -kent
-