UD182050@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) (06/27/90)
I have the following system.. Rom 01 GS (Woz) circa 1986 AppleColor RGB Monitor 2 Apple 3.5" drives 1 Apple 5.25" drive 2M AE GS-RAM+ ram board (the new ones) AE TransWarp GS (again, newest version) Apple DMA SCSI card 45M Rodime HD in a Chinook CT30 case Kensington System Saver IIgs Zoom 2400 bps modem MDIdeas SuperSonic Stereo card External amplified speakers Apple ImageWriter II color printer and my machine will not work 'till it is "warmed up". When I turn it on cold it either gives me a TransWarp error #001, please restart, or it gives me lo-res graphics where those words should be, or it does weird stuffs with ROM (nuking 5.25" disks, wirring continious, weird crashes), then if it DOES start-up cold, it will start nuking programs (usually ProTerm v2.1), and the only solution seems to be to leave it on for a while, and try it again....and once it's warmed up, it ALWAYS works. I've started just leaving it on to avoid these problems, but it got shut off by a friend last night so I had to go through it again this morning. Does anyone have any idea why this could be? I was thinking it maybe has something to do with the power supply (revision 01, I think, 1986), or maybe because I'm running a (heavy) extention cord, to a (heavy) power strip, and I'm running my (impressive) stereo system from the same power strip (at low volume levels). I was thinking perhaps the voltage was dropping by the time it gets to the computer, but I havn't checked it. I was also thinking perhaps I might have some bad (slow) chips on the motherboard that could be causing the problem. Any ideas at all would be appreciated. Mike