nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) (04/13/90)
I have an 1986 A1000 ie with the keyboard parallogram problem, 512K, 2 floppies, 1.5 Mb Spirit Inboard running KS and WB 1.3. For one of my configurations I run Matt's Dnet, UUCP, with qmouse 1.3, facc II and an 880 K rad: disk for sys:. This leaves me about 500 K, split 200 chip, 300 fast. The problem, if I don't do a thing, just cold boot from kickstart, the system will start to freeze, the classic symptom of low memory, even although all the memory meters around say 500K. When the it Guru's the Med error is: 82010000.26436036. My Inboard is grounded and worked just dandy for over a year and it's only in the last 2 months that this problem has shown up. VirusX doesn't report a virus, and I rebuilt my disks from the original source, so this isn't a virus. Therefore it's probably hardware. Can someone confirm this diagnosis? I'd like some pointers to where the problem possibly lies. Could it be the solder joints have gone cold and should be redone. Might it be the power supply. Have the chips gone bad? What is confusing is that this has the appearance of a memory leak, but the meters don't record it. But the programs I'm running are all certified OK in this regard. I have tried running different combinations of utilities, the only thing that seems to change is the length of time Guru. Has anyone got any advice/suggestions. And no, I can't afford to upgrade to a 2000... BTW: Why do different memory programs usually report different amounts of free ram, even when runnign at the same time? Thanks for any help, neil mcculloch nmm@apss.ab.ca Alberta Public Safety Services Edmonton Alberta (403) 451-7174