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Oddity: 4000D more stable after 16MB installed on mobo
« on: March 18, 2007, 04:38:11 PM »
This is not really a question, more of an observation.  And, frankly, there could be other factors involved, such as reseating the Picasso IV and X-Surf 3cc cards which had to be done during the process.

In any case, I have noticed that my A4000D has run much more stably and experienced fewer crash-related reboots since I installed the 16MB of RAM on the motherboard.

I leave my 4000D running under OS3.9 with at least Miami, Garshneblanker, and whatever the blanker which shuts the monitor off is called  (DPMI Blank?) and WBClock.  Sometimes I leave applications like WeatherExperience or AmIRC running as well.  I will see a reboot something like every four to five days.  Since putting the 16MB on the mobo, I have enjoyed as much as eight days without a crash.
 

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Re: Oddity: 4000D more stable after 16MB installed on mobo
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2007, 06:22:05 PM »
I should also have mentioned that I am running a CyberStorm MKIII with 128MB.  I've always been pretty confident that the random crashes were caused by Garshneblanker modules, especially since there have been times when I have actually caught the software error window on the screen referring to a specific blanker.

I don't doubt the potential of bad RAM.  I have, however, been able to test all of my RAM modules to find them 100% operational.

Regardless of anything, I love this system. Just wish I could go PCI and PPC :)