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  Kona LH causing random shutdowns of G5

  Posted by David Garcia on March 2, 2006 at 2:59 pm

  Hi. I just installed a new Kona LH card into a Dual 2ghz G5 with 8gigs of RAM and and an ATI 128MB gfx card running two 23 inch monitors. Latest FCP 5 and Latest OSX and quicktime updates.

  The card seems to be working great, however I will walk away from the machine and come back to find it has crashed. The last time it happened, It would not restart and I had to unplug the machine for 20 minutes before it would start up again.

  I ran the AJA conflict catcher before install. Nothing came up.

  Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

  David

  david garcia
  Halflife* Digital
  albuquerque, nm

  Jeff Bernstein replied 20 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  March 2, 2006 at 3:29 pm

  Sleep plays havoc with FCP running. Is that what’s going on? You can sleep the monitors, but you can’t sleep the drives very well it seems.

  Jerry

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  Jeremy Garchow

  March 2, 2006 at 5:04 pm

  Jerry’s on to something. Go into your energy saver preferences and turn your processors to highest and tell your computer to never sleep and turn off screen savers too. The only thing I leave on is to sleep my monitors off after 2 hours, which rarely happens anyway.
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  Jeff Bernstein

  March 6, 2006 at 5:57 pm

  Does it crash with a Kernal Panic or does it just lock up?

  Jeff Bernstein

  Digital Desktop Consulting
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