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- From: rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Titch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: RiscOS power up self test
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.170323.13443@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:03:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan06.141739.10787@news.mentorg.com>
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- I recently upgraded my A5000 to RO3.1 and after about a week funny things
- started to happen. I think I may have pressed the ROMs down too hard, because
- I too got a red screen and a blinking light on the floppy drive. The sequence
- of blinks is a system status report (the sequence consists of 32 blinks) which
- tells you what's wrong with the system. Apparently I had a RAM problem, probably
- caused by a broken track due to my hamfistedness.
-
- Luckily the thing was still under guarantee so it was fixed for free.
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- Cheers,
-
- Rich.
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