Lombard ram problem

[russman]

I got my lombard from ebay today, 333 mhz, 64 mb ram, 9.2.2 This runs os 9 great and thats where its going to stay i think. WamCom is a nice browser too. I have been trying to add a stick of 64 mb to the open ram slot but no matter what i do the two won't play nice. Interestingly it boots with extensions off but when they are on it freezes either before the finder loads or right after the icons show up. I tried flipping them around and the daughtercard is seated well, it boots with one or the other but with both it freezes. Ideas?

 

[Unknown_K]

You have a bad ram stick.

 

[russman]

I can't see how i would have a bad ram stick, if i can use the lombard with either on in without any problems. Its just when they are together that i can't boot.

 

[TheNeil]

Are they both the same speed? Some modules aren't backwards compatible (speed wise) so could be conflicting

Just a thought

 

[coius]

Interestingly it boots with extensions off but when they are on it freezes either before the finder loads or right after the icons show up. I tried flipping them around and the daughtercard is seated well, it boots with one or the other but with both it freezes. Ideas?

I think you have an extension conflict. You might want to download Conflict Catcher Demo and see if any extensions have conflicts. The other thing is have you had it connected to any servers that is a permanent connection? Try cleaning out your server folder and see if that helps. Try that and report back. If all else doesn't work, it may be time for a re-install of OS 9 as you may have a corrupt system

 

[russman]

But i have no problems with only the one module in so i don't think it is an extensions conflict, i think its just when i have them both in and extensions on it has more to load into memory and then it freezes. I'm not sure if they are the same speed, i'll probobly end up buying a stick of 256 or something.

 

[russman]

Okay, its running with the 128 mb in, seems to be okay. I started up with extensions off, and did a ram test with guage pro, the ram was ok. So i took the daughtercard out and blew out the ram slots and the conncections to the motherboard with a can of compressed air. Then i started it up but it unexpectadly quit system profiler, photoshop crashed with error 2 and wamcom froze the system. I shut virtual memory off and now it seems to be okay although i would like to solve the underlying problem so i can use vm again.

 

[russman]

Well, i have gotten it working for now with vm on, hopefully it will run better. What i did was set the disk cache in memory control panel to Custom setting at 2 mb. Not sure why this helped but it has so far.

 

[russman]

Well, its still very unstable and unreliable. I bought a 256 mb stick and i will try that out, should be okay.