Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgghhh! Message-ID: <9010150001.AA02406@apple.com> Date: 14 Oct 90 23:53:00 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 45 On Sun, 14 Oct 90 21:39:15 GMT Rubio said: >My hard drive starts giving me I/O errors (hehehe... yeah, SURE they're I/O >errors, this is a HARD DRIVE, you stupid machine!) ummmm, a hard drive can get bad sectors just like a floppy and cause I/O erros. >So I switch the IIgs off, pull the controller card, re-seat it, and power >back on. > >I'm treated to a display of a white rectangle filling the foreground, and a >black background, on the screen. > >Nothing else. > >The drives don't move, the Apple IIgs copyright message doesn't come up, the >typical startup *beep* is silent. Have you tried turning the computer on without the controller card plugged in? ... just to test if it's your mother board. If the computer doesn't have any problems after you take the card out, then put it back in and check to see if any part of that card is touching any other cards you may have plugged in next to it. This sounds similar to a problem I had. I plugged my AST Video digitizer in next to my AST RAM board and a piece of metal on the video board was touching a metal prong on the RAM board. I ripped off a small piece of paper, folded it several times, and put it between the two boards and I haaven't had the problem since. >IS MY MOTHERBOARD DEAD??? PLEASE SAY NO!!!! Unplug EVERYTHING you have hooked up to the computer (except for the monitor) and turn it on. If it beeps and gives the copyright screen, it's not your mother board. Try putting your cards in one by one (with the power off, of course), only having ONE card in at a time and turn the computer on. Sooner or later, one of them should cause the problem.... UNLESS you have several cards and no fan. It may just be getting hot. >--rubio (rubio-1@uiuc.edu) ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on whole wheat.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|