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From:Kevin Twyman
Date:5 May 2000 at 13:18:51
Subject:Re: Boot failure

Hello Robbin,

On 04-May-00, you wrote:

>> When I power up my A4000T (Power Tower) it will boot to the point
>> where a WB screen has opened, then the mouse pointer freezes, and

> Ive got the same problem here :))

> Only difference, on my machine it freezes at the cgx4 logo, just
> after loading fastiprefs or adddatatypes.

I can't tell exactly where it's freezing, but I suspect the problem is
caused by the time taken to load the WB background pic. I thought the
problem had been cured, but it re-appeared this morning :(

> But not always, it boots fine most of the time, but sometimes it
> just stalls :)

Yup, same here. Three re-boots and it was fine, sometimes it fires up
right away.

> I think it has something to do with datatypes/fastiprefs on your
> config, try renaming the datatype dir and run Iprefs instead of
> fastIprefs, to see if it helps.

Looking at my s-sequence, I run Iprefs then FPPrefs?

> Hope thats of any help to you :^)

Everything helps, I'm still working on it :)

Regards,



Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
A man with an Amiga A4000T CyberStormPPC 604e/233

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