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From: verwer@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems booting w/accessories...
Summary: I also have spurious reboots
Keywords: reboots...
Message-ID: <1786@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 10 Nov 89 09:09:36 GMT
References: <1669@fredonia.UUCP>
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
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In article <1669@fredonia.UUCP>, sale5312@fredonia.UUCP (Marty Saletta) writes:
| 
|    I've got many disks with accessories, AUTO programs, etc.  Sometimes
| when I boot up with such a floppy (I'd guess about 10% of the time) I
| get the computer loading a few of the accessories, but then doing a
| cold or warm boot in the middle.  It's like someone hitting the reset
| switch during bootup before the GEM Desktop appears.
| [...]
| got 1 Meg so memory might no be the problem.  Anyone else have this
| happen frequently?

This sometimes happens to me, with about the same frequency. The boot
procedure seems to go all right, and then suddenly a reset occurs.
The machine boots again, and everything is fine.

I boot from a hard disk (megafile 30), and I also stick to the rules.

First, I thought this might be caused by random bits in RAM, which make
TOS think something terrible has happened.
However, yesterday I noticed that the reboot occurred after the set
time/date program was run from the auto folder, and that it ocuured
when I set a wrong time/date, i.e. I just kept the time/date of the
previous boot. Maybe the program notices that it has been active at
some later time/date (some set time/date programs save the time/date 
information) and doesn't want this.
It might also be the case that an error occurs while trying to set the
internal ST clock. I do not have an add-on clock, b.t.w.

This was what I could think of, but it doesn't sound too probable to me.
Maybe someone else knows the reason for these spurious reboots?

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Nico Verwer @ Dept. of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
verwer@cs.ruu.nl    +31 30 533921