jyouells@pnet02.cts.com (John Youells) (01/16/88)
I had a very interesting thing happen yesterday. After work I turned the
monitor for the first time that day ( I leave my machine run 24 hrs a day) and
found myself face to face with the Kickstart prompt! Figuring that there must
have been a power glitch I inserted Kickstart then Workbench - vdk: was still
alive ! About 1 meg's worth of files where still intact. All I can figure is
that it must have been a very stort 'glitch'. Has anyone else had this
happen?
BTW, in testing Phil Staub's PSTransformer I found that vdk: will often
survive using the Transformer too. Thanks Phil - yes I use the Transformer,
for work related stuff, its slow but gets the job done. My system config: 3
megs ( 2 meg Allegra, 512k internal hack at $C00000 w/Haynie fix ) and 3
drives - 2 -3 1/4", 1 - 5 1/4". Patiently waiting for Bryce's KickStart patch
for $C00000 memory destuctive testing - has anyone seen Transactor for the
Amiga yet? (Yes, it is VDK: 1.0 - $10.00)
Thanks,
John Youells
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INET: jyouells@pnet02.cts.comkip@wybbs.UUCP (Kip DeGraaf) (01/22/88)
In article <2172@gryphon.CTS.COM>, jyouells@pnet02.cts.com (John Youells) wrote > found myself face to face with the Kickstart prompt! Figuring that there > had been a power glitch I inserted Kickstart then Workbench - vdk: was still > alive ! About 1 meg's worth of files where still intact. I figure > that it must have been a very stort 'glitch'. I have had this happen with vd0: on a 4.5 meg system using a 2 meg vd0: drive. I really wish I knew why the Amiga would throw that kickstart prompt back up there occasionally. Happens about once every two months with me. About 3/4 of the time the vd0: survives too. Is Perry out there to hear this? -- Kip DeGraaf Sorry no fancy signature, inhp4!killer!wybbs!kip I'm only creative kip@wybbs.UUCP when I program.
bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) (01/25/88)
In article <255@wybbs.UUCP> kip@wybbs.UUCP (Kip DeGraaf) writes: > >I really wish I knew why the Amiga would throw >that kickstart prompt back up there occasionally. Happens about >once every two months with me... First off it has nothing to do with VD0: It is a problem with your hardware. Either something bad externally or internally. Crash to Kickstart is a common symptom of bad *OVR ram boards. You could have a service center connect the ground lines of the following daugterboard PALs together: U6J U6K U6L U6N Use heavy wire. This will probably fix your problem. |\ /| . Ack! (NAK, SOH, EOT) {o O} . bryce@hoser.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!hoser!bryce (or try "cogsci") (") U "All lawyers are slime" - Any Client
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (01/26/88)
bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) wrote: >> Amiga would throw that kickstart prompt back up there occasionally. > >It is a problem with your hardware. Either something bad externally or Maybe not. I once had some code that stomped memory, produced lots of pretty colors (aka FIREWORKS_MODE) then would ask for Kickstart. I could get it to happen all the time. It was a bug in my code which I got rid of eventually. Now I wish I still had it (the bug) around... ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes." -- from 'Blade Runner'