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From: arons@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Michael Arons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word crashing on IIfx
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.135152.12668@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 13:51:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.000308.8911@cascade.Stanford.EDU> <16208@slice.ooc.uva.nl
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In article <16208@slice.ooc.uva.nl> cmorgan@ooc.uva.nl(Chris Morgan/RIKS)
writes:
>simoni@strat.Stanford.EDU (Richard Simoni) writes:
>
>>I have recently upgraded my II to a IIfx, and can repeatedly crash the
>>machine.
>I can do better than that. I have had several problems with 2 of my 4 MacIIfxs.
>One will crash randomly and another will crash semi-randomly when I use MS-Word
>4.0 - usually when scrolling. I've tried everything I can think of but can't
>get the machines to run continuously for more than a few days.

I've had intermittent crashing problems with my fx. I have seen some
correspondence on the net. One suggestion had to do with memory chips.
Someone claimed that some NEC chips were a problem and switching 4mB
banks stopped the crashes. I haven't checked that out. Another area
suggested the problem involves SCSI devices, termination and cable
length. Although, I only have an Apple scanner terminated with the
suggested black terminator, I have just disconnected it to see if
there is any effect. (Too soon to tell!). Finally, I think I read
somewhere about a potential Appletalk problem for some fxs. Mine is on
a small network with an Appleshare server.

Unfortunately, the whole thing has an aura of the "black arts". Very
mushy!


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