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From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgghhh!
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Date: 15 Oct 90 00:52:46 GMT
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rka20423@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rubio) writes:
> 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!)

  The machine's not stupid.  What's wrong with a hard drive having I/O
errors?  Nothing.  It happens to the best of 'em.

> 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.
> 
> 
> IS MY MOTHERBOARD DEAD???    PLEASE SAY NO!!!!
>
> (any ideas??)

  Nope, but don't rule out the possibility of an I/O error.  It's
possible...

> --rubio  (rubio-1@uiuc.edu)

		-Greg T.