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From: cantwell@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (Jeff Cantwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Flaky 1040st
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Date: 7 Mar 90 22:18:58 GMT
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Help!  My 3 year old 1040ST seems to be getting a bit flaky lately.  I
get frequent bombs when trying to run software that used to be fine.
Mostly I get three bombs (address error), or two bombs (bus error),
and an occasional TOS error #35. I am also getting messages that the
disks are unreadable or may be damaged, but after several tries, or
rebooting they work fine. I am using commercial and public domain
software that has not been any problem in the past, such as
Starglider, WordPerfect, ABCD, Daleks, etc. These reside on different
floppy disks.  I just have the one doublesided floppy drive (no hard drive),
and I have never performed any maintenance on it.  Could I simply have
a dirty disk mechanism or do I have more serious troubles?  If so, is there
a drive cleaning kit available for the ST? I have also considered the 
problem of heat, but leaving the machine off all night and trying 
programs in the morning does not help at all.

By the way, I did recently detect an unidentified virus with ST Virus
Killer version 2.01 from George Woodside, and promptly killed it and
disinfected all my disks.  The effect of the virus was to erase a
disk.  I lost one disk, and then temporarily lost but recovered
another. They all are clean (virus-free) now, according to the
program.


Jeff Cantwell Vanderbilt U.

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