[CUBE] PL upgrade (Was: Feedback from GigaDesigns!)

[James Knight]

I believe I have tried every resetting trick in the book - open firmware
nvram reset, pram reset, motherboard magic button, you name it.

As far as I am concerned, if a Cube wakes fine with it's stock processor but
will not wake with the upgrade board, then the fault's with the upgrade
board. Apple would say the same and so I think would any objective onlooker.

It cannot be a kernel problem if the problem is manifest across multiple
versions of both OS9 & OSX, can it?

My guess is that there's a duff bunch of G4 CPUs out there which won't wake
from sleep. Why PL don't just replace the faulty board I don't know. I
understand Sonnet had similar problems (although far less of them) - they
just replaced the boards and everyone's happy.

James
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James Knight
Norwich, UK

j.knight at kb-group.co.uk


on 15/1/03 3:32 pm, Sergei Zak at mancubus at macbox.ru wrote:

> Maybe it's an OpenFirmware / NVRAM settings problem,
> I can imagine some Power Management setting not reset even by pressing
> the CUDA switch. Like I had this problem after upgrading to OF 4.1.8
> the Cube would not be Force-shutdown using the power switch, it would
> immediately go to sleep instead as soon as i put my finger on the power
> switch. Previously it would go to sleep ONLY when I removed a finger
> from the switch AND the time my finger spent on the switch was less
> than 4 sec.
> But now this woe is magically gone, I missed the trick that did it, but
> now it's OK as before at the OF 4.1.5. I guess Jaguar install did it?
> Someone with a coma-bitten Cube tried removing the battery for a day?
> You may also try entering 'reset-nvram' at the OF prompt.
> then...
> reset-all
> set-defaults
> ...
> Then again - there are revisions to the MLB. Are there any of the DCDC
> board?
> 
> On Среда, янв 15, 2003, at 22:47 Asia/Ulaanbaatar, Simon Meyer wrote:
> 
>> Maybe there is something that I am missing, but to me it doesn't make
>> sense
>> labelling it a software problem?
>> 
>> Simon
> 
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