[Sinjin]

I recently installed a PCI Radeon card in my beige G3/300. It froze.
I have determined that whenever I enable Apples USB Support extension 1.4.6 (This allows PCI USB cards to function/not needed with built in USB) that the computer will freeze up and Norton will be required to fix all sorts of damage. Even after disabling all my other USB extensions and unplugging my USB mouse, gamepad, hub and CD burner it still freezes.

I have disabled the extension but now my USB equipment is useless.

Anyone have a suggestion or experience the same thing?

P.S. I am using the most recent ATI drivers and OS 9.1.



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[giantmike]

You could try the developmental drivers. They are not supported, but they fix many bugs. Just goto www.versiontracker.com and search for USB DDK.

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I too have experienced frequent freezes my beige G3 since installing a PCI Radeon. I haven't troubleshooted it as far as you have, but as I'm also running a PCI USB card I suspect it's the same.

FWIW, only certain applications (most often IE5, which was always bad but has gotten much worse since the Radeon) seem to trigger it. When I was out of town last week I left my computer on for 5 days running Entourage and Personal Web Sharing and it never crashed, and it's never crashed playing games, which you'd think would trigger the problem if anything would.

I suspect it's a driver issue. I've read the problem is not there in the OSX public beta. *fingers crossed*