MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET (Marcelino Bernardo) (04/05/89)
Finally, I got my new 1040STF last Friday. I Unpacked it, hooked it up to my monitor (Tatung MM-1295 multiscan monochrome monitor), inserted the Language Disk, and turned the power on. My excitement quickly turned sour when the computer repeatedly tried to access the disk, make the monitor click, access the disk, etc. After about four cycles of this, I turned the ST off and tried it with a blank disk. Lo and behold, the desktop appears. So, it appeared that the Language disk was corrupted. By trying to copy the files one at a time, I found that trying to copy CONTROL.ACC gives a disk error. With everything but the CONTROL.acc copied to the blank disk, the ST booted fine, but not with the original Language Disk. Easy. I called up my dealer and he agreed to send me another disk. But, that's not the end! The next day, I found that I could read the CONTROL.ACC from the suspected bad disk. So, I copied it into 3-4 disks that I have formatted. The ST booted up OK with all the copies and the original disk. Now, this got me worried again. Is this a disk drive problem? Last night (Monday), I turned on the ST, and was unsuccesful in booting up with all my disks with the CONTROL.ACC. But after the ST had been on for 1/2 hour, I was able to boot with CONTROL.ACC again. What's going on? This is really getting me worried. I hope I didn't buy myself a big expensive nightmare. Another symptom: While testing (...OK, I was playing) the ST with a very cheap adventure game (Silicon Dreams) I got very very cheap from a local store, twice the screen cleared, displayed what looks like bombs, and then the desktop. Any advice or ideas on these matters would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Marcelino Bernardo Bitnet: MBERNAR@ERENJ
Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (04/06/89)
Given the fact that your disks do boot randomly with the CONTROL.ACC, and that Silicon Dreams also had problems, I would immediately suspect a hardware problem. Try using a blank formatted disk with nothing on it (No CONTROL.ACC) and see what happens. This could be a loose chip problem (unlikely) or a bad drive, in either case the dealer should give it a look. Peter Szymonik Xorg@cup.portal.com