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- From: riana@acca.nmsu.edu (Riana)
- Subject: HELP! My ST doesn't work.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.044007.12079@nmsu.edu>
- Summary: .prg's don't work, at all, period.
- Keywords: Broken, help,
- Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu
- Organization: New Mexico State University
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:40:07 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- HI. I need some help. My computer seems to be upgefucked.
- In a nutshell, I have an atari ST 520. I used to burn it (leave it
- running, that is.) Then I moved away from home and did not bring it with me.
- It sat, off, for about six or eight months. When I got it back, none of my
- programs would load (I had rogue, degas, wordwriter st, basic, sundog,
- apshai trilogy, and a few others. Mostly I used it for degas.)
- Everytime i tried to load them I either got a 3 bomb or a #35.
- I left the computer at a freinds house for about two more years, having
- given up on it. The preferences would load, and GEM seemed to work fine,
- but nothing that ended with .prg seemed to want to load.
- I just got it back, and it is still screwed. Knowing a _little_ bit
- more about computers, nowadays, I decided to see if there was anything I
- could figure out about it. I cleaned the heads oon the drive, and that
- didn't help. I got another copy of degas, and that didn't help. The new copy
- gave me the "this program doesn't want to work" message the first time, and a
- #35 the next (not to mention, it wouldn't boot without me booting another disk,
- I tried the rogue at another freinds house, and it gave me a #35.
- I found this extremely odd, since it seemed to indicate that it was
- the disks that were screwed, but the copy of degas, which was made in another
- computer and worked fine there, wouln't run, which indicated it was a drive
- problem.
- So, I took the drive out of an agima, plugged it in (since the con-
- nectors inside are the same) and tried it again. The degas copy wouldn't
- boot, so I booted it off another disk and loaded the degas. it gave me
- a #35. (when i tried to boot the degas disk, it gave me a three-bomb guru
- meditation). I tried to load the rogue disk, and, of course, it was screwed
- with a #35, still.
- Since the (annoyingly noisy) agima drive was KNOWN ahead of time to
- work, I have come to the conclusion that it is probably the computer itself,
- and not the drive or the disks (although the computer could be messing up
- the disks, presumably. I am writing agima backwards so no ones kill
- files catch it, by the way, as i have to get this post to as many potential
- troubleshooters as possible.
- As it is, Irving 9my st) is sitting with the case off, so the next
- CEE major that comes by can look at it without me having to re-unscrew it.
- Hopefully, living in a colege town, I can get this thing working without
- having to pay anyone anything, as i cannot afford it, but any help anyone
- can give would be most appreciated. I was a teenager when i got it, so
- those warranty forms never got sent in.
- If anyone knows anything about this sort of thing, please help.
- I cannot respond to mail due to a /tmp problem here, but i can respond from
- dodger@bigboy.cis.temple.edu
- thanks, in advance
- DODGER
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