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Re: How to get stable Blizzard PPC operation?
« on: April 15, 2006, 10:24:43 PM »
Hello doctorq

First of all, if i remember correctly, the 1D1 revision is pointed as the best one by Eyetech, because it can have all the known issues easily fixed.

Further revisions, had different board layouts, because Commodore intended to have newer revisions of the chipset, correcting these issues. But as we already know, these improved, bug free chips never came out. So despite the boards  with a different layout, the same chipset was used.

For this reason, the bugs are still there, but as the boards are different, the patches are more difficult, and in some cases impossible to apply.

But still, your board need patches ! It didn't have had all the problems corrected on the factory.

That pointed, i would like to comment that i have a 1D3 revision board, with a BPPC (060@70MHz, 603e@270MHz) that's very stable. In fact, most of my problems come from my Mediator, and not from my BPPC.

I think your problem can be a power issue.

Even if the power supply is rated at 350W, it doesn't means it really is. Nowadays is more and more common to find low quality power supplies out there. If you can, try another power supply. Preferably the newer, RMS rated power supplies.

Also, if you have the space, try a fresh system install. Try to not copy old files from a previous setted partition.

I had a problem once, that came exactly from that practice.

I installed the OS several times, but then i copied over some files, that was in my previously configuerd problematic partition. In the end i found that the problem was exactly in these files that i copied over every time.

Good Luck.