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From: mxh5795%ritcv@cs.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Problem with Hard Card
Keywords: 1000SX hard card
Message-ID: <920@cs.rit.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 89 03:50:21 GMT
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Reply-To: mxh5795%ucss@cs.rit.edu (Michael Houwers)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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I purchased a Tandy 1000SX last year, and upgraded to 640K with two floppies.
Recently (coincidentally, about the same time as a sale :-) I bought a 20
meg (Tandy) hard card for my computer.  It had to be placed into slot 3 because
I also have a SmartWatch piggybacked onto the ROM chip.  All went well for a 
while, then I began to get a strange intermittent error.  Occasionally,
the computer would not boot from the hard drive.  This is what happened..
    
   1)  Would cycle thru both disks (normal)
   2)  Prints memory message (Memory = 640K)  (normal)
   3)  Prints '1701' partially over memory message (not normal)
   4)  Looks for boot disk in drive A (not normal)

Also, upon putting in a perfectly good boot disk (if the hard drive failed),
it would sometimes respond with 'bad or missing command interpreter.'

Again, note that this does not occur consistently.  I tried reformatting the
disk to no avail...

Any ideas/questions/help??  Thanks in advance,
Mike


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