[iyonix-support] Re: Booting up is failing intermittently
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- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:36:15 +1300
On 14 Feb, John <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The first IDE socket is the one nearest the edge of the board.
Thanks. But now I have another symptom, a buzz!
I still have this intermittent boot-up failure with two (or one
as 'master') HDDs in their correct places -
Recall from my first post:
> ------------------------------------------------
> After switch on: Green light on and immed afterw orange light on.
> Both HDDs click and whirr for 2-3 sec. Then nothing but a faint
> whirr from the power supply. After less than a minute the orange
> goes out. Switch-off at the rear switch causes both HDDs to click
> off. I have: New 120gb WD drive set as master with slave The orig
> 120gb maxtor drive set as slave (no link) Both plugged into the
> motherboard socket nearest the edge with a new strap cable. Floppy
> is connected and plugged into power supply, but no light on at the
> front. No bootup sounds from that.
> ------------------------------------------------
I now have a loud burst of noise from the speaker coupled with
mouse/kbd freeze-up. First time it occurred last week there was a
short 'bip' and immed frozen pointer/kbd. I was using the pointer at
the time, accessing a filer menu item.
Next time it occurred the sound was a raucous continuous loud BUZZZZ!
coupled with unresponsive mouse/kbd, and after 2-3 seconds (and no
Ctrl-F12 availability) I shut down with the rear switch.
I have a newish PSU (300W June 06).
> If using 1 drive it goes to the OTHER end of the cable AND MUST be
> set to master. (The use of 'Cable Select - CS' on the iyonix is not
> the preferred method)
> If using 2 devices on the cable, position of master and slave is
> irrelevant.. either could be master or slave .. depends on which way
> around the devices are happiest, BUT one must be master and the
> other slave.
Checked: yes. Still experience many failed boot-ups (see above). One
such resulted in a black monitor screen with 4 lines:
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| RISC OS 512MB
| 80321 Processor
| Acorn ADFS
| _
|
and no more boot action
Are there some tests I can do here?
Or take it into ESD in Auckland for a hardware checkup?
Brian
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Auckland NEW ZEALAND
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