"Morrison, Paul T." wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> G4's and Seq Analysis 3.3. Nice set up. I want to be doing this soon.
Hi, Paul - UM is almost *giving* these G4's away just to get us to retire
older macs (incompatible with planned network upgrades). No splurge at all -
but the monitors they have with these are hulking monsters with a desktop
footprint like Bigfoot. :)
> A couple of things I would try:
>
> Try down grading to Seq Analysis 3.2 or 3.1, you never know and don't you
> want to live on the edge by not being y2k compliant.
I'll give it a try.
> Try setting virtual memory on and set to 1 meg higher than built in memory.
> Who knows why this fixes anything.
Tried it. No joy.
> Because it stalls on hand off to the base callers:
> try another base caller
Yep - done that.
> or
> "get info" on the base caller and set memory higher
done that. :)
> or
> see if abi web site has a newer base caller maybe Long read base caller
> v3.3.1b2
> (With a version number like that you know their trying to fix something).
Good idea - worth a try.
> Or down grade to an older base caller.
(Tried 'em all, actually)
> If you open the intall pdf file on the web site it mentions Sequence
> Analysis 3.4. Maybe this will work on a G4 with OS 9 which is the first
> generation with totally native code.
Kewl - first I've heard of V3.4 - even the Support Tech didn't "bother" to
mention it.
> I haven't been using a G4 but have been using OS 9 for the past month. I
> haven't found software that it doesn't like. (Well maybe Internet Exploreer
> 4.5 is flakier but it was always flaky).
yeah - now I've proven it's not MacOS9 that's the problem. Same symptoms
on 8.6 <sigh>. it's gotta be the G4.
> And then there are all those things that never fix anything:
> Throw all the pref files away, rebuild the desktop, reinstall the software,
> or my personal favorite that never works: reformat the hard drive.
I've done all but the last one - but heck, I'll reformat the hard drive.
I love being able to say I've tried *everything*. :)
Thanks for the suggestions, Paul. I'll spread the word if I find a way to
get this to fly.
Bob Lyons
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