Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!amperif!unocss!mlewis
From: mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Z100 problems
Keywords: hung system
Message-ID: <949@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 12:06:18 GMT
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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Once again, I need help figuring our what is wrong with my Z.
I backed the motherboard mods out and put the UCI 512K board back in
and still have problems.  I no longer get random "parity or buss errors",
all I get is nothing.  CHKDSK has recently begun to report that my hard
drive is a probable non-dos disk, CED has begun to vanish any time I
interrupt any i/o with ^C.  And occasionally, the machine goes away.
Rebooting always fixes it.  The last straw came last night when CHKDSK
refused to output anything and refused to give the keyboard back.  I 
reformatted (again) and reloaded, then tried to run CONFIGUR.  Everything
went smoothly until I told it to write to memory and disk, and it wiped
out my system tracks.  On a related note, about three reformats ago, I
had problems with mkdir, which would hang and leave me with a link to \,
which gave CHKDSK fits, and which I could not rename, delete, or anything.
This is getting to be a tidge annoying.  I had decided I had a corrupted
OS, so reloaded from original disks, same problems, except now I have to
reformat tonite.  HELP!  What's this monster doing?  (BTW I am operating
off the HD now, I just had to boot from floppy.)

Gern, your offer of a new MB is sorely tempting, but I need to find truly
gainful employment before I can spare that much cash.  I hope you still
have it when I can afford to make an offer.

Marc Lewis

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