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- From: Digital Arts Software <DigitalA@zenecaen.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Damned SX-1...
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:40:42 GMT
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- In article: <4km9k2$sei@news.ox.ac.uk> pe96001@sable.ox.ac.uk (Mario Miniaci) writes:
- >
- > I shall tell you a tell of hardware, desperation and atrocious bad luck...
- >
- > My tale begins in July 1995, where I bought an SX-1 for my cute but
- > lonely CD32. The ugly great box promised much, and almost
- > delivered. Within the week I bought an HD and 4 megs of ram to improve
- > things, and it was okay apart from the HD never booting. "Fine", said
- > I. I returned the SX-1 to the shop, where it was replaced after a few
- > months. Tried again. Still no HD booting, but I would have put up with
- > that were it not for the duff parallel port too. That was in
- > October. In March, after excessive telephony, I received my new
- > SX-1... but without the hard disk and ram that I had returned (to see
- > if they were interfering with each other). Even more hassle and
- > phoning finally got me a replacement hd and ram; I should have gone to
- > the Office of Fair Trade by then. Well, finally I had a working
- > system: ram, hd and SX-1 all going along dandy. Then a few weeks ago,
- > the price of ram crashes (as it were) and I thought that selling my 4
- > meg simm and buying an 8 meg one would be wise. The first 8 meg simm
- > that arrived did not work with the SX-1 but a PC (spit) had no
- > problem. I sent it back and asked for one that did work with the SX-1,
- > or else a 4 meg simm that worked and the difference. Well, this
- > morning that 4 meg simm arrived... but it wouldn't work if the hard
- > disk was installed. I'm using a Goliath p.s.u., so it should have
- > enough power.
- > Here's the worst: once I put it all back together, having resigned
- > myself to just sending the SX-1 back again, I foolishly decided to
- > finish a letter and print it out. I hit the power button, there was a
- > smell of smoke and the power light went out.
- >
- > I now have to have the CD32 repaired, and I want rid of the SX-1 for
- > good. Can anyone tell me if I'm jinxed, or has anyone else had this
- > problem? Also, what are my chances of getting the supplier of the SX-1
- > to pay for my repair?
- >
- > Watch out, it's an unlucky world out there...
- >
- > Regards,
- >
- > Mario Miniaci (mario.miniaci@spc.ox.ac.uk)
- >
- >
- --
-
- Oh Dear... Sorry to hear about your bad luck.
-
- But your setup will not boot-up the Hard Disk, straight off!!
-
- WHY! Well its because the Kickstart in the CD32 was not designed
- to bootup a hard disk, so you will have to create a Boot Disk, we
- will include one in our internet pages in the Next day or so...
-
- How do we know the CD32 Kickstart is the problem??
-
- Well we used a Kickstart 3.0 emulator, so we get presented with the
- Flying Disk screen ... like an A1200.
-
- When the Kickstart 3.0 was run, the Hard disk booted fine! so it
- was the Kickstart!.... Do not alter the priority of the HARD DISK,
- otherwise you will messup your CD Games.
-
- OUR BOOT DISK WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 16/4/1996
-
-
-
- = Darren Evans =======
- Amiga Projects Manager
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