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From: sfr@praxis.co.uk (Stephen Rickaby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: IIci Cache Card Problems (After Dark?)
Message-ID: <5647@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Date: 23 Jan 91 19:46:07 GMT
Sender: sfr@praxis.co.uk
Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.
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I've got After Dark Version 2.0s running on my IIci, and have had this or
the previous version (1.1) running for a year or so without problems.
When I added an Apple cache card to the Mac, applications started falling
over, and getting caught by the Multifinder with an error code 28.  This
error code is always the same, for whichever application crashes.

It seems as if the foreground (active) application dies when After Dark
tries to kick in, as After Dark seems to have gone away after the crash.
This was with the 'activity monitor' enabled.  When After Dark is run
alone, it can be made to crash the Mac, but not consistently: it only
happens sometimes, with some screen saver modules, and not always in the
same way.  Sometimes it gives a `Damaged Finder' bomb box, sometimes just
a rapidly flashing bomb box.  It can also crash when the `Demo' button is
used.

Removing After Dark seems to cure the problem.  Disabling it in the
control panel does not (but leaving the activity monitor enabled),
although it makes it less frequent.

Anyone got any ideas on this?  Please note that the cache card is of UK
manufacture and is from a known 'good' batch, not from the batch which
were recalled in the States (or so Apple here assure me).

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