klt@.b23a.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer) (05/22/91)
Last Night my newly purchased 1040STe finally showed up (after being backordered for eight weeks.) I carefully took it out of the package, disconnected my 1040ST, reconnected the STe and booted the system. the result was 2 (count'em two) system "bombs". I checked everything To make the story of a frustrating night shorter, if the hard drive was turned on, the system wouldn't boot. I used the backdoor method of spinning the disk up after system boot. (Sometimes the HardDrive [Supra 20M ] would spin up properly, sometimes not The Red Busy Light that would not Turn Off). After using the hard drive program and reinstalling the the disk icon, I could look at files however attempting to delete the auto folder on the C drive would lock up the system. I tried to build a new temporary boot disk, but I found that deleting files or copying file would not survive the next disk refresh. So the problem is that the STe won't write to disk's properly or boot properly. Is this a new incompatibility between the ST and STe? ;-) I thought that the hard drive might have gotten screwwed up, so I swapped the STe out and the ST in. [I wanted to play with the new software as well.} Every thing seemed to work just fine. Any commment: Should I send the stuff back to the dealer and wait another 8 weeks for another machine. Is it likly that the chips having been seated properly. ---------------------------------------- Sorry about the header: I'm still trying to figure this new newsreader options out, [The defaults to xrn are screwed up]
Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (05/23/91)
Sorry I can't E-Mail you , your header is faulty,.. Check to se if you have brass inserts underneath the machine, used to hold the Main PCB down, if not get your machine changed to one of these later ones.. It looks like you could have the DMA problem, but there could also be problems with your old Supra Drive.. -- Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...