lagomorphonic
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After chugging by and barely being able to get along with the 5MB RAM my SE/30 had in it, I finally got myself 128MB. Unfortunately, after the install, the computer behaves erratically. In particular, certain programs (Emacs especially) now take a ridiculously long time to load, when they don't flat out freeze the machine. Apart from the long load times, the machine will often just freeze randomly and not recover, which is the real problem. I'm running System 7.1.1 with the BMOW ROM-inator II and also an 8GB SCSI2SD (512MB OS partition and two 2GB partitions). 32 bit is enabled and Virtual memory is disabled. The disk cache is set for the "default" of 4096k, (was originally set to 32k, no difference in behaviour between the two) Apart from being a bit slow, I'd never had any issues with the machine or freezing before the RAM upgrade.
Are there any other "obvious" things I need to do to the machine to get the 128MB working properly? Maybe I've got some bad RAM? Since the ROM-inator disables the check, is there another way to do a check? Any help would be appreciated. This is very frustrating as I've finally gotten the machine into a nice working state that I could be quite productive on (mainly using Emacs/Textures for documents) and the performance boost from the RAM upgrade would have been great. Now the machine is essentially unuseable. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.
Are there any other "obvious" things I need to do to the machine to get the 128MB working properly? Maybe I've got some bad RAM? Since the ROM-inator disables the check, is there another way to do a check? Any help would be appreciated. This is very frustrating as I've finally gotten the machine into a nice working state that I could be quite productive on (mainly using Emacs/Textures for documents) and the performance boost from the RAM upgrade would have been great. Now the machine is essentially unuseable. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.