Re: printing problem relapse
- From: Dan Rempel <drempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:52:16 -0700
Bart Mathias wrote:
jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
Recently I switched from Mozilla Mail and the plain Mozilla browser (as
part of Mozilla Suite) to Thunderbird and Firefox. They seem to crash
with "segmentation faults" and whatever less frequently than the other
programs did (but when it gets over 28 all bets are off even with the
new programs), and on the whole I've been satisfied with them.
Interesting about the crashes. I used to use Mozilla with RH7.3
and it rarely crashed or froze. I now use Firefox with FDC4 and
I don't think it has crashed once in 8 months. Maybe the PPC ports
are ropy.
At least one person has suggested it is a heat problem. I added another
case fan (to suck air in from the front while the other one [plus the
PSU fan] blow out the back), but the suck-in opening isn't really large
enough.
As long as the temperature was in the low 20s there were very few
crashes (none at all on the Amiga side). It's only when it gets up to
around 30 that I have trouble.
This is a long shot, but you might try taking the machine apart and
disconnecting/reconnecting everything that you can, and if there are any
socketed chips on the board try pushing on them gently with your Big Fat
Thumb (tm) in an attempt to re-seat them. The caveat here is that if you
have a solder joint/trace problem (certainly possible with heat-related
stuff) these things might make the problem worse/permanent. OTOH, if you
kill the thing you'll simply have to get a new board, and they're cheap
these days. Another heat-related possibility is a flakey power supply;
they're cheap too. YMMV.
Dan
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