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From: jasona@sugar.hackercorp.com (Jason Asbahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: comp.sys.apple2
Keywords: hey what why when
Message-ID: <7141@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 27 Nov 90 04:44:57 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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Greets!  
 
A friend of mine with an early model GS (256k on board) seems to be having
a little trouble...  His machine has been active oddly lately, failing to
boot, or switching from 3.5 to 5.25 to 3.5 over and over...  Most recently
the system reports Fatal Errors (scary sounding, hmm?) like Fatal Error
$0681  ...  and scrambling the "Apple //gs" text at the top of the screen
on bootup.  ???   He recently had the board cleaned at Computercraft
(apparently had some kind of red dust on it) and he doesn't remember any
odd activity before the cleaning.  Could a chip have been partially popped
out of a socket?  Perhaps heat causing it to bend and disconnecting a
lead temporarily?  Experts please reply!
 
        -Jason Asbahr
 
(** Also anyone who wrote me about Applecat software -- please send
requests and exchange lists again.  Thanks...)