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My CFFA 3000 is inside an Apple IIe enhanced and is using physically using slot 7 and virtually #6 for floppy drives with 3 smart ports on. I have 2 other cards in the machine, an Apple 80 col on slot #3 and a Mockingboard on slot#4. I left Taipain running for about 2 hours (at the title screen) and the Apple dropped to the monitor. If I restart by toggling the power, the CFFA 3000 will start to boot a hard drive image, but crash to monitor. If I remove the CFFA 3000 I can boot to my floppy drive (Slot #5) and the computer behaves normally. If I let things cool down a bit by keeping the computer off for 10 minutes, everything seems to start working again. I am running 3.1 firmware. This has happened with other programs as well when they are left running (buzzard bait is another).

After some more testing. If I remove the compact flash card itself, I am able to run for hours without a crash.

It could be the power supply is getting marginal - and/or heat is fatiguing it. I wonder if doing something else to unload it (i.e. taking out the Mockingboard) would keep it running?

Will try pulling the Mockingboard.

It appears that my problem may be electrical in my home. I have a laser printer that was causing lights to flicker, since I have unplugged the printer , I have not seen crashes on the Apple IIe.