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From: klt@.b23a.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: STE Problems
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Date: 22 May 91 15:53:07 GMT
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Last Night my newly purchased 1040STe finally showed up (after being
backordered for eight weeks.) I carefully took it out of the package,
disconnected my 1040ST, reconnected the STe and booted the system.
the result was 2 (count'em two) system "bombs". I checked everything
To make the story of a frustrating night shorter, if the hard drive was
turned on, the system wouldn't boot. 

I used the backdoor method of spinning the disk up after system boot.
(Sometimes the HardDrive [Supra 20M ] would spin up properly, sometimes
not The Red Busy Light that would not Turn Off). After using the hard
drive program and reinstalling the the disk icon, I could look at files
however attempting to delete the auto folder on the C drive would lock up
the system.

I tried to build a new temporary boot disk, but I found that deleting
files or copying file would not survive the next disk refresh.

So the problem is that the STe won't write to disk's properly or boot
properly. 

Is this a new incompatibility between the ST and STe? ;-)

I thought that the hard drive might have gotten screwwed up, so I swapped
the STe out and the ST in. [I wanted to play with the new software as well.}
Every thing seemed to work just fine.


Any commment: Should I send the stuff back to the dealer and wait another
8 weeks for another machine. Is it likly that the chips having been seated
properly. 


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