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From: shatara@memit.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: More on . .AWGS V1.1 Question
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Date: 3 Dec 89 22:13:54 GMT
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In article <WOMBAT.89Dec3133955@claris.com>, wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes...
> 
>> Any Ideas ?
> 
>Nothing concrete... I've not heard of anything like this... if I had, you can
>bet we wouldn't have shipped with those kind of known bugs.  By Occam's Razor,
>it would seem that your hard drive is somehow at fault.  What kind is it?

    Seagate 32 meg 3.5" on Apple SCSI REV C card

>If SCSI, what kind of SCSI card do you have?  Presumably you used either the
>installer or the finder to copy AWGS itself (it has a resource fork) or else
>you wouldn't be able to get to the open dialog.

    Tried Both
> 
>Finally, what kind of a crash are you getting?  Serious system alert (either
>a BRK or a COP instruction was executed); hanging machine (no response to

    It would appear that I can run spread sheet but opening a word 
processing file, either new or old, causes some disk activity, then none, 
and the "watch cursor" is displayed...forever.  Can't get into control 
panel, can't do anything except reboot.

    Trying to get into page DataBase trashes thge screen.

>anything except reboot... basically an infinite loop somewhere (like an unused
>bank) with interrupts disabled); glorious death (machine makes obscene noises,
>screen memory gets trashed, machine possibly goes into 50Hz mode... (machine
>is running or randomly accessing the softswitches)) or what.
> 

    I've also tried pulling out My AST Vision Plus module, my supersonic 
module and replacing the GSRAM+ with the fully populated Apple memory 
expansion card. (My hair is next an there's not much left of that :-)

Thanks for the thoughts....I'll keep plugging at it.  Never seen anything 
like this.

/chris

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