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- From: terry@pimple.demon.co.uk (terry)
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- Subject: Re: a4000 problems...
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 19:02:32 GMT
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- how much ram have you
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- > I have an a4000. I get the following problems using the 030, a warp
- > 4040, and a gvp gforce 040 with a gvp a4008. I get software failures
- > daily on all different tasks. I think the message I usually get is
- > something similar to "Failed Sanity Check on MemFree()". The guru
- > numbers I get are 810000050 and 0100000c0. It makes no difference what
- > cards (if any) and what cpu is in my system. Sometimes my system will
- > stay up for 20 hours, but it usually dies after 5 hours or so.
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- > I thought I had solved the problem a month ago. While looking around, I
- > found a small screw resting against (actually more like wedged against)
- > one of the cia's. When I removed the screw, my IDE began working again
- > (it had stopped working a year ago - around the same time my ram-guru
- > problems started). I thought the problem was solved. It wasn't. Just
- > the other day my disk drive stopped working totally. I haven't tried
- > another drive yet. Everything seem to be pointing towards my CIA's.
- > Before replacing them though, I wanted to find out if somebody has an
- > idea what else may be wrong. I would like to fix things properly.
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- > My parallel port and my clock work fine if that tells you anything... I
- > figured they would be screwy if the CIA's were in need of replacing.
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- > Please help me. I have a nice a system while it's working!
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- > Thanx in advance.
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