On 11 May 2006 as I do recall, Ewen Pring wrote: [snip pyjamas] > It happens maybe 2/3 of the time on power up of this machine, reset > button allows it to boot OK second time. I've only seen 'pyjamas' once, but this machine is still failing to detect the video card on a not irregular basis, which simply results in a permanently blank screen and the necessity to reset and boot up all over again. Maybe one time in six or ten. > > I can cope with that, but it is embarrassing for others to see my > showcase RISC OS computer apparently unable to start reliably. Yes, it is embarrassing. In the instructions I left for my father as to how to access the e-mail while I was away, I had to include 'what to do when it fails to start up', by which he was not terribly impressed; and when I came back ten days later, I gathered that he had in fact been subject to this problem several times. It's not much of an advertisement.... -- H. Bazley The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support