>My son has a PowerBook 1400 with a Sonnet G3 processor upgrade. It >used to work for video games, but at some point it started freezing >up. For a while it would not start up when he pressed the Power >button. He had to start it by pressing the restart button in the back >several times, then press the Power button. >This was when he was running OS 8.1. > >He reinstalled OS 8, then installed OS 8.5 and 8.6. Now it starts up >normally with the Power button, but it still freezes up during video >games.These video games are not high speed games, there the >educational type. So they should not require the fastest processor. > >Any ideas as to how he could solve this problem? >Could it be hardware related?
Yes. Only take it as high as OS 8.5 - there is an issue between OS 8.6 and the Sonnet card that nobody will admit to. I did this 3 years ago and after months of troubleshooting finally found the cure. I don't know about 9.X but 8.5 was a winner with me. There was a whole bunch of 1400 Sonnet users who were freezing regularly - they came in from the cold with 8.5 ;-) HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
