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From: jkjk@quads.uchicago.edu (John Kruper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: IIfx problems
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.171342.7722@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 17:13:42 GMT
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I just received a MacIIfx (w/ 4MB Apple RAM, 80MB Apple drive, Apple's 
8-24 video card, and Apple's 13in color monitor) and am experiencing  
difficulties:
     -if, using Monitors in the control panel, I switch to "millions of 
colors," I lose all hilighting ability (i.e., no shading, etc.).  When I 
switch to 256 colors, all seems to be well.
     -the machine randomly hangs on me while inside various applications 
(i.e., is none-responsive to mouse clicks, command keys, etc.), forcing me 
to reboot the machine.
     -applications "unexpectedly quit" under what seems to me completely 
unsystematic circumstances.  I am often given an error ID of "3".

Do these problems sound like hardware problems?? -- system software?? 
(I've rebuilt the system using locked master discs a number of times now.)

One further piece of history --- on initially setting up the machine, the 
internal hard drive was sent unformatted.  After using Apple's HD utiltiy 
to format the drive, then installing the system software, the machine 
would not boot off of the internal drive.  A trip back to the dealer 
resulted in a new internal drive.  Could this have been a related sympton 
of the problems I am now experiencing??

I would appreciate any pointers, helpful hints, insights, etc.

Feel free to post to the newsgroup, but I'd appreciate direct E-mail at:

jkjk@quads.uchicago.edu


Thanks much!

John Kruper