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- From: bartjan@cs.kun.nl (Bart-Jan Bouwers)
- Subject: Re: reset, reset, reset, down...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.090337.10261@sci.kun.nl>
- Sender: news@sci.kun.nl (NUnet News Owner)
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Jul29.101755.27052@sci.kun.nl> <5161@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:03:37 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In <5161@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
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- >bartjan@cs.kun.nl (Bart-Jan Bouwers) writes:
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- >>Anyone had this problem? My ST keeps resetting itself when I boot it (from
- >>diskette). It does read the prg's in the auto-folder as well as the acc's
- >>but as soon as the desktop comes up, it resets. This sequence then repeats
- >>and repeats and repeats until I'm fed up. So, I've put it far away in a
- >>cupboard... Who knows what could be the cause of this and what needs to be
- >>repaired?
-
- >More to the point: is there anybody out there who has never had this problem?
- >What is probably happening here is dust or disturbed magnetic particles on the
- >boot disk. During the booting something in the GEM system area gets trodden on,
- >so as soon as the desktop tries to come up it falls over. It is also common for
- >the machine to hang or reset before the desktop appears.
-
- This might be a cause for such a problem but it does not hold for me. ALL of
- my disks won't work anymore (and they are *not* infected :-) and booting
- without a disk won't work either. So thanx to everybody who suggested that it
- might have been corrupted auto-prg's or acc's but it's not the case for me...
- So it must be a hardware problem. I expanded the memory to 3 MB recently and
- before I had some troubles with an overheating power supply. My machine is
- a 1040STf with tos 1.0. Any other suggestions?
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