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From: dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Vulcan questions, Diagnostics problem, GS/OS bug??
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.013441.212@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 01:34:41 GMT
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  Ever since I got my Vulcan 40 hard drive, my computer has been acting up
every once in a while.  Sometime on boot-up, the screen will fill with
wonderful strange characters and proceed to do nothing else.  Sometimes I can
see what's going on underneath the strange characters, but it will usually
die soon after.  So I got smart one time and did the good-old ctrl-open-close-
reset and ran diagnostics (oh, yea, reset didn't do a thing to the funky
screens).  I got error 02E01F00 and a nice ear-removing beep.  Any clues?

  Number two --> It seems my Vulcan has now taken upon itself to lose certain
files from my hard drive when I write new things on it.  So I initialized all
40 meg, got a virgin system disk (no virus) and proceeded to rebuild my
hard drive when things started fading into oblivion again.  I seem to think
this and the previous have something in common -> like a bad controller card.
Any thoughts?

  Number three --> I've noticed that when I get a certain amount of DA's on
the system, GS/OS will either crash immediately, crash when doing a Get Info
(to change the inactive state of the DA's) or crash when exiting an application
more specifically TML pascal II.  Everything works great with no DA's, and
it isn't any specific DA that is causing the problem, i've tried just about
all the possible combinations, and the crash occurs when I exceed a certain
K of DA's installed.  I thought that it could be that GS/OS was getting
shoved into a bad memory location, but all RAM tests out to be fine.  Is this
a problem with the memory manager or what?

Thanx for your time..

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 Derek Taubert --> derek@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu  ||  dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu .
 Anyone who programs or has an idea for a program for the IIgs, PLEASE send  .
 me mail!                                                                    .
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