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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looks like it's that time of year; another weird problem.
Keywords: HARDWARE, ERRORS, FAILURE, PROBLEM, I/O, DISK, HELP.
Message-ID: <12524@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 89 17:53:25 GMT
References: <12517@s.ms.uky.edu> <1798@ucqais.uc.edu>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Organization: El'n'tk National Spaceport, Mission Control
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In article <1798@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes:
>Have you checked the CIA chips?
>A quick check would be to switch the 2 chips...
>George
George -
     No, I haven't tried swapping the chips (forgot there were two of them!)
and while I'm quite willing to mess around inside the machine, I try not to
do it until I've got a specific idea of what to do. Thanks - I'll try this.

     Also, the weird problem has gotten weirder. I popped in a few different
workbenches (older ones) just to see if anything would change. They locked up
just as quickly. Then I popped out the disk - and heard "click... click...
click..." My older WBs don't have NoClick in the startup-sequence. (I've never
been happy to hear that sound before, but I was this time). So I popped the
disk back in to see what would happen (something was obviously still running)
and suddenly I got a "Please insert" requester and things were running again!
Until the next time I tried to click on an icon, at which point it locked
again. I repeated the pop-out, pop-in process and it started right back up.
This works on my newer WBs too.
     Weird, no?
                                                   - R'ykandar.

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