[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Help requested with crashing programs

rcbaem@rw7.urc.tue.nl (pooh 'Ernst' Mulder) (01/30/91)

I have a weird problem, and I haven't got the vaguest idea whether it's
a hardware or a software problem.

My system is an enhanced Mac 512. The memory is extended to 2 meg.
I've only recently enhanced my Mac with a SCSI port, and a 20 meg hard
disk. I'm running system 6.0.5, and the problem, which description
follows, does not change when a vanilla INIT-less system is used.

Normally, everything is just fine. But my Mac crashes when I run
programs that use more than 1 meg of memory, or such it seems. When I
boot Word 4.0, it crashes with ID=2 just after it draws the menu bar.
When I start Think Pascal, it crashes (ID=2) when it tries to update a
project.  In MultiFinder, I can run programs without problems, until
less than 1 meg of memory is free.

The problem does NOT occur when the hard disk is off.

Any help is appreciated,

pooh