[softwarelist] Re: CD download problems

In article <03234b454e.jbridger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   John Bridger <jbridger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently bought RiscOS 4.39 (at the South West show).

> I needed help to get 'install' to run, but members of the Wessex group
> sorted this at a meeting. Back home it would not !Boot until I unplugged
> my USB card-reader (Castle USB podule). All seemed well until Ovation
> kept on crashing and locking up the computer completely. I eventually
> found that some PD fonts caused this. However, there were other problems
> (software not working) and I eventually re- installed OS 4.02. I had of
> course saved the 4.02 !Boot file just in case!

Hi John, did you want to bring it along to the next meeting on Saturday to
see if we can get to the bottom of the problems?

> Everything seemed back to running without any problems until I tried to
> download a file from a CD ROM. I could open up the root directory of the
> CD and any subsequent directories showing the list of files therein.
> Click on the file icon and drag it to any destination and it crashed -
> locking up the computer completely (only way out is to turn it off at the
> mains) - the CD drive continued to whirr (rotate) until also turned off.

> I then re-installed the OS 4.39 ROMS (and its !Boot file) but the problem
> remained. So I went back to 4.02. 4.02 works fine in every respect -
> except that I can not download any files from a CD.

Remind me how the CD-ROM drive is connected, is it possible the cable isn't
all the way in? Also, did you do a delete power-on after changing from 4.02
to 4.39 and back?

BTW the WAUG mailing list has now moved to freelists, the email address is
waug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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