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From: jeff@pro-avalon.cts.com (Jeff Jungblut)
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Subject: Re: an Idle Apple...
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Date: 10 Nov 90 03:13:36 GMT
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> Has anyone else had any troubles with their systems crashing when they are
> left alone for short periods of time?  Programs seem to crash into the 
> monitor for no apparent reason.  Any application that uses GS/OS or
> ProDOS 16 gives me this problem, especially when dialog windows are open for
> more that 10ish seconds without any mouse movement.  Games also seem to die
> after being left in pause more for more than a minute or so.  Has anyone 
> else eun into this annoying bug, and is there a way to get rid of it?

Crashes like that usually indicate a hardware problem.  One morning at work I
booted GS/OS 5.0.2 into the Finder, just a few minutes after 8am.  At around
11:30, it crashed to the monitor.  I hadn't touched it after turning it on.

Once in a while it locks up if I just let it sit, and it often gives Fatal
System Errors 681, 682, 683, and infrequently, 911 when restarting.  The
self-test always returns System Good, but there's something obviously wrong 
somewhere.

> My system:
>   Rev 01 ROM
>   GS.OS 5.0.2 (usually)
>   1.25 meg RAM
>   Apple SCSI card 
>    Jasmine 70 (or so) meg HD
  
The buggy GS I was using:
  Rev 01 ROM
  GS.OS 5.0.2 & 5.0.3
  1.25 meg RAM
  Apple UniDisk

Conclusion: none.  I swapped my GS for another from Tech Support and they had
it serviced.  I didn't find out what was wrong with it.  :-)

-- jeff@pro-avalon

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