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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Weird A1000 problem
Summary: Sounds like a virus to me...
Message-ID: <99451@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 89 19:52:48 GMT
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <80@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>I am posting this note for my brother, who recently acquired another
>Amiga 1000.  This one has a wierd problem.  I'll pass on any replies
>to him...
>
>The Problem!
>
>	The problem only seems to manifest itself on the 
>	Workbench screen.  You can only move icons around within
>	a rectangular area between the title bar and 1.75 inches
>	below it.....
	[And yet every thing else drags properly ...]

>	Once the display locks up, if you pop out the disk and pop it back
>	in, it becomes "unlocked", that is to say, it operates as "normally"
>	as it did before it locked-up. 
	
	This is what worries me. If you were a virus, playing pranks on the
	user like this, when would you go do something else? When the disk
	was replaced of course! To see if you could infect it as well. Since
	this is "another" A1000 my suggestion would be to try it's workbench
	disk on the first one. And see if the "old" A1000 starts exhibiting
	the same symptoms. 

	The other more mundane possibility is that the EPROM in the kickstart
	eliminator dropped some bits. (Which it would do if it was exposed to
	UV for any length of time). Try a new set of Kickstart EPROMs if the
	virus idea doesn't pan out.



--Chuck McManis
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