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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems booting w/accessories...
Keywords: reboots...
Message-ID: <1792@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 13 Nov 89 14:11:34 GMT
References: <1669@fredonia.UUCP> <1786@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
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Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland
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In-reply-to: verwer@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer)

In article <1786@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, verwer@ruuinf (Nico Verwer) writes:
 `In article <1669@fredonia.UUCP>, sale5312@fredonia.UUCP (Marty Saletta) writes:
								  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.
 `
 `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 also encounter this occasionally, and I get the impression that it
happens when you move the mouse. I suspect that some mouse-interrupt vector
is not properly set until GEM has been initialized.
-- 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht,  The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-531806   Uucp: uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet
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