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From: myb100@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hardware problem in Software ??
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.155831.3685@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 5 Dec 90 05:58:31 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.183634.3676@csc.anu.oz.au> <613@cbmger.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <613@cbmger.UUCP>, peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
> In article <1990Dec4.183634.3676@csc.anu.oz.au> I (myb100) wrote:
>>
>>Anyway, sometimes on boot-up, my 'm' and 'n' keys don't work. 'Fine' everybody
>>says - 'check your keyboard contacts'. Well, yes, that'd be my reaction too,
>>except for this: There is no way to cheat in software to get the 'n' or 'm' to
>>appear either. I used Snap to pick up a word containing an 'n', and when I
>>put it down, the 'n' was gone !!
> 
> Well, I remember similar things from the very old days with an A1000 here.

Whew - I'm not alone... :-)

> But I fail to remember what we did against it. When such a thing happens

Aaaawwww :-(        :-)

> today to my Ami, then surely I had a terrible software running before
> that destroyed some of the system RAM. (But I can't explain why it always
> hits the 'm' and/or 'n' key, I experienced the same.) So, do you have
> anything in your startup-sequence that could deliver such unpredictable
> results?

Well, nothing 'unusual'. Mainly: PopUpMenu, MyMenu, VirusX, Snap, Arp, 
FastFonts, DMouse, and probably one or two other things I can't remember
right now. I did have this problem with my A1000 as well, and my startup-seq.
for _it_ was very simple - I didn't start customising until I got my A2000(B)
with HD... so I don't think it's anything in the SSeq. ...?

> Perhaps this is simply a RAM hardware problem. One should have a severe
> RAM testing software on hand that could check such a RAM thoroughly.

Yes, one should.... Anybody have one I could beg/borrow/ftp ? :-)

Thanks
> Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
> Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

Any further comments/suggestions out there ?

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