Apollo 1240 Issues

[Franko]

Did you overclock it with the new crystal ?

Obvious checks are, check the RAM is seated ok, dunno if you had to solder the new crystal in but if you did check the solder joints, check the edge connecter (sometimes these can become a less springy over time & not make contact correctly), not sure if any of the chips on the Apollo are socketed but it's worth re-seating them if they are...

[Franko]

It's got a socketed crystal, no overclocking. I did check and reseat the ram. I will look at the edge connector. That could be the issue..

When I changed the crystal on my Blizzard060/PPC I added a socket for the crystal instead of soldering it. Quite often it would neither boot up of mysteriously crashed, turned out the crystals 4 pins were not making a good connection in the socket, after putting a little kink in the pins it's worked fine ever since.