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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4506.0. "Wierd Problems" by HKFINN::MACDONALD (VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs) Sun Feb 10 1991 13:40

    I have a very unusual problem with my 2000. Icons seem to be getting
    trashed for no apparent reason. In some cases, like with Trashcan.info,
    I copy the icon over from a virgin Workbench disk. It appears on my
    hard drive, but when I click on it, a portion of it turns white. In
    other cases, although the .info files exist for programs, they do not
    display in the window. Programs seem to run okay from CLI, but not
    through the icons.
    
    To add more mystery, I loaded PPage onto my system yesterday. I clicked
    on the icon and immediately received an Error 121. I tried running it
    from CLI, and same problem. Then I copied both the program file and the
    icon over to RAM: from the hard drive, and was able to run it
    successfully from there.
    
    Some programs that I try to run are giving me "Not an object file"
    error, but not all the time.
    
    Any idea what is happening here? This is a fairly new machine (Rev.
    6.2) with an ASDG 2 Mbyte RAM board by Micron, a GVP Impact 2000-HD
    controller with a Quantum 40S drive, and A2620 (problem exists even
    with the 2620 out of the loop).
    
    Anyone know if there are any incompatability problems with the 6.2
    board and the devices I listed above?
    
    The dealer was having a problem trashing floppies when he added the
    second floppy to the system. Any chance that the motherboard is bad? I
    believe the floppy controller is part of the motherboard.
    
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4506.1was it a corrupt backup/restore?MEO78B::MANDERSONPhotographers do it in darkroomsMon Feb 11 1991 05:199
    I had similar problems with Quarterback V2.x which was apparently
    corrupting the archive. did you try all this after a backup/restore??  
    
    (V4.whatever of QB is now solid for me)
    
    regards
    kevin
    
    
4506.2CHECK CHIP MEM and EXPANSION MEMSDOGUS::WILLIAMSTOPGUNThu Feb 14 1991 15:348
    You may have bad chip memory.
    Also you might check to see what kind of memory is on the memory
    expansion board.  I have seen some memory boards expanded where static
    columns are mixed with non-SC chips and this is NOT GOOD!  Try removing
    the memory board and see what you get.
    
    regards
    TOPGUN