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From: MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET (Marcelino Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: New 1040STF owner needs help!
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Date: 4 Apr 89 17:38:54 GMT
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Finally, I got my new 1040STF last Friday. I Unpacked it, hooked it up to
my monitor (Tatung MM-1295 multiscan monochrome monitor), inserted the
Language Disk, and turned the power on. My excitement quickly turned sour
when the computer repeatedly tried to access the disk, make the monitor click,
access the disk, etc.  After about four cycles of this, I turned the ST off
and tried it with a blank disk.  Lo and behold, the desktop appears.  So, it
appeared that the Language disk was corrupted.  By trying to copy the files
one at a time, I found that trying to copy CONTROL.ACC gives a disk error.
With everything but the CONTROL.acc copied to the blank disk, the ST booted
fine, but not with the original Language Disk.  Easy.  I called up my dealer
and he agreed to send me another disk.   But, that's not the end!

The next day, I found that I could read the CONTROL.ACC from the suspected
bad disk.  So, I copied it into 3-4 disks that I have formatted.  The ST
booted up OK with all the copies and the original disk.  Now, this got me
worried again.  Is this a disk drive problem?     Last night (Monday), I
turned on the ST, and was unsuccesful in booting up with all my disks with
the CONTROL.ACC.  But after the ST had been on for 1/2 hour, I was able to
boot with CONTROL.ACC again.  What's going on?  This is really getting me
worried.  I hope I didn't buy myself a big expensive nightmare.

Another symptom:  While testing (...OK, I was playing) the ST with a very
cheap adventure game (Silicon Dreams) I got very very cheap from a local
store, twice the screen cleared,  displayed what looks like bombs, and then
the desktop.

Any advice or ideas on these matters would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Marcelino Bernardo
Bitnet:  MBERNAR@ERENJ