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From: Bill.Whitacre@p916.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Bill Whitacre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: New SE/30 problem
Message-ID: <676094904.5@blkcat.FidoNet>
Date: 5 Jun 91 05:58:31 GMT
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I sure could use some help with a perplexing problem.

We have just got in 10 brand new SE/30's at work for use as equipment controllers.  Since these machines are going overseas we've learned to open up everything and burn it in for awhile before shipping it out the door.  In the process of doing so we've noted some disturbing behavior.

These are SE/30's that've been upgraded to 5MB of RAM by Falcon (the sole GSA vendor for Apple h/ware!) and internal 40MB hard drives.

Turning on the machines out of the box we got the question mark'd disk instead of booting from the internal HD.  After booting from a floppy and having it recognize the HD it would boot from it upon restart.  Then, in unpredictable places while running various s/ware the machine would hang with various errors from 'out of memory' to 'bus error' to plain old 'system error'.  Sometimes they won't recognize a floppy that's shoved in, sometimes they will.

It's all very strange and quite disturbing.  I have never had a problem with getting a Mac out of the box and having it fire up just fine.

The machines came with pre-formatted HD's running Sys 6.0.7.  Any help would be appreciated!  
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