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From: nazareth@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Dieter Nazareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Three Bombs on Boot (Help!)
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.152402@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:24:02 GMT
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Tim Onders (onders@ipl.rpi.edu) writes:
>My ST is being flakey.  When I turn it on, the screen is blank, the drive
>starts spinning, and after about a second, three bombs come up.  Sometimes
>it makes it all the way to the desktop before bombing, but very rarely.
>Anyone have any ideas before I shell out sever hundred $$$ for a professional
>to take a look at it?

Pete Fenelon (pete@minster.york.ac.uk) writes:
>...
>I suspect that it's one of the ROMS -- there was a day when if I put a TOS
>disk the machine bombed;  if I put Minix (which makes minimal use of ROM
>after the ST has loaded the boot sector) in it works perfectly!
>
>Must get it fixed properly though - I suspect this is just a matter of
>checking all the ROMs and RAMs are sitting there firmly.....


Yes, I also think that you have problems with your ROM sockets,
because Atari has used the cheapest available sockets ("power without
the price"). But you can test whether the ST bombs because of bad
contact. If you boot with a RAM TOS from disk the ST must not bomb.

Fixing the ROMs properly is only a quick solution to this problem.
If you often move your ST, the bombs will return. It is better to
exchange the cheap sockets for high quality sockets. I have done this
on my ST, because I had the same problems, and the ST works fine up to
now.

		Dieter Nazareth


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is not a bug, this is a feature <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<