scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott) (10/24/90)
HELP! I had a really horrible experience this morning. When I turned on my A3000 it asked whether I wanted to boot from 1.3 or 2.0. It normally only does this when you cold boot and hold down both mouse keys. Well I thought, maybe it was just some quirk. So I clicked for 2.0 from the harddrive. NOTHING. I clicked for 1.3 from the harddrive. ZILCH. So I pulled out by 2.0 kickstart and WB backups and booted from floppy. When it finished....no sign of my hard disk! No Icon. No nothing. YIKES! So I cold booted again. Same thing. SO I prayed to the patron saint of hard drives, and tried a third time. Completely normal. It booted from the hard disk into 2.0 The harddisk is there. Files seem okay.... What the hell happened? Is my harddisk about to crash after two months of use? On a (maybe? hmmmm...) related note...I once heard that when you boot, a RAM test is performed and the colours etc. of the screen could indicate problems. Well, just after I bought and installed 4 Meg of 1Mx4 for my FAST last month a broad dark line would appear when I boot. It sits there, then scrolls up, then jitters around and vanishes about the time WB appears. It only really does this when I turn on the machine after it being off for at least a few hours. If I cold boot after it's nice and warm the broad black band doesn't appear. Is this a RAM problem or a monitor (1950) problem. HELP HELP! Jim Scott@stsci.edu
nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin) (10/24/90)
In article <1924@nemesis.stsci.edu> scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott) writes: > >HELP! I had a really horrible experience this morning. > >When I turned on my A3000 it asked whether I wanted to boot >from 1.3 or 2.0. It normally only does this when you cold >boot and hold down both mouse keys. > > [ Horror story of powering on 3000 and having it not recognize > hard drive ] I've had this happen to me a few times, too (I have an A3000-25/100). Basically, if you had looked closely at the boot screen it presented you, you would have noticed that the "hard disk" selection for both 1.3 and 2.0 was grayed out. That's why nothing happened when you selected it. The first time this happened to me, I panicked, too... But I just powered off the machine and powered back on again (leaving a few seconds in between, of course), and everything was normal the second time. My assumption is that every once in a while the Quantum doesn't become ready fast enough for the 3000 (it's a pretty short time out), and so it doesn't think the drive is there. This happens to me about 1 time in 10, and always works fine on the second try. The fact that it has happened to somebody else makes me feel better... Nancy -- ============================================================================== Nancy Durgin | (Usual disclaimers | Tegra-Varityper, Inc. tegra!nad@uunet.com | apply...) | Billerica, Massachusetts ==============================================================================