harry@hparc0.HP.COM (Harry Page) (06/10/91)
My wife brought a Portfolio recently but when she went to use it the other day the whole contents of memory had wiped themselves. The date was still correct but the setup was also gone. Does this mean she has a bad one or are Portfolios prone to this? She gets alot of use from it normally but if it is going to do this on a regular basis we might as well get rid of it and get a 95LX. Cheers
keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (06/11/91)
harry@hparc0.HP.COM (Harry Page) writes: >My wife brought a Portfolio recently but when she went to use it >the other day the whole contents of memory had wiped themselves. The date was >still correct but the setup was also gone. Does this mean she has a bad one >or are Portfolios prone to this? She gets alot of use from it normally but >if it is going to do this on a regular basis we might as well get rid of it >and get a 95LX. I have had the problem 3 times in 9 months. The first time was when somebody took out the RAM card while the machine was on. The other times I do not know what happened. Atari has a warning with the machine I bought - that one should avoid some special situation at the end of a document. They may have corrected that error by now. I think you can avoid the problem by handling the RAM card carefully and do regular backups to a PC. Keld Simonsen
BJGLEAS@auvm.american.edu (bj gleason) (06/11/91)
The best defense against memory loss it to save all your files on a memory card in drive A: instead of C: Most users then reduce C: to 8k with the FDISK command, and it allows them to run larger programs.