[G4] PLAY CHESS! OWC comment re testing processor upgrades

John Guzman macman at chasquis.com
Mon Jul 11 23:18:54 PDT 2005


>Steve Goldstein wrote:
>
>>BACKGROUND: I had reported that my OWC Mercury Extreme 1.4 GHz
>>processor upgrade was the culprit that was causing my Quicksilver
>>2002 to go crazy on me (weird font substitutions, freezing), and all
>>this learned after hunting down, testing, and rejecting just about
>>all other possibilities first.  OWC was VERY cooperative in accepting
>>the processor upgrade for replacement.  The replacement processor has
>>worked well for several days already.
>>
>>CHESS: I wrote to ask OWC Tech Support about testing the new
>>processor, because, even though it seems to be working properly,
>>Apple Hardware Test (CD that comes with new Macs) reported the same
>>errors as with the defective processor.  Their reply was very
>>interesting and worth sharing--PLAY CHESS:
>[...]
>
>Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that.
>
>keith whaley
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