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- From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: reset, reset, reset, down...
- Message-ID: <4186@wet.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:14:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.101755.27052@sci.kun.nl> <5161@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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- In article <5161@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
- >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.
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- I don't know. My first thought was software incompatibilities. It sounds
- like some TSRs and desk accessories are conflicting, at least from the little
- that he tells us. :^)
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