Hello again. I am still searching for a reason as to why my Kansas 9600 logicboard bit the dust a few months ago. I ran this machine since new, almost 12 years(or more) of service with no issues at all. Installed a 36GB Seagate SCA drive a few years back with an SCA to 50 pin SCSI adapter installed on it. No problems after that. Then I had 10.0, than 10.1, than 10.2.8 running without issue. The last thing I did was install a Sonnet Crescendo 1Ghz G4 upgrade card in the machine and load 10.3 a few months back(maybe more like a year). Everything seemed okay, I ran my 9600 pretty hard, going from 8.6, 9.2, and 10.3 all the time, benchmarks, Strata 3D work, Photoshop, etc. Than one day it started acting funny. The machine took longer to boot and when switching from OSX to classic, the system folder kept on becoming unblessed for no reason. A few more weeks passed and it got worse, it got to the point where in OpenFirmware it refused to see the onboard SCSI chip. Now, the machine is even hanging with a 2930cu SCSI card installed and nothing on the onboard controller. I also have noticed, not long after it was put into production, the Sonnet Crescendo G4 card is off the market. :?:
So I'm wondering which of these things could have killed my 9600 board. The cheap SCSI adapter? The 1Ghz G4 card? Or maybe Xpostfacto and running 10.x? Any opinions on what could of happened? Thanks.
So I'm wondering which of these things could have killed my 9600 board. The cheap SCSI adapter? The 1Ghz G4 card? Or maybe Xpostfacto and running 10.x? Any opinions on what could of happened? Thanks.