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| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
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| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
360.0. "Spring cleaning in order?" by EVETPU::BRAMHALL (Mark Bramhall) Tue Jan 03 1989 15:11
We've had our Atari 1040ST from about 18 months now. We use it mostly
for games (and why not). The room it is in gets quite dusty. Not only
do we heat the room with wood all winter long, but we own seven (yes,
7) Golden Retrievers for whom the room is home. I do vacuum, trying to
get what dust I can, from time-to-time. But, we seem to have two
problems:
1) One of our games (Bard's Tale) will not load about 50% of the time.
It sure looks like misreads of the disk (we've only the internal double
sided floppy). Turning the system off and waiting a while and/or when
the room is colder (wood heat is not very stable in temperature), the
game will load OK.
2) Occasionally, for no apparent reason, we'll lose a game disk or a
desk-top disk. Again, it looks like disk error(s).
My question is whether, given the dusty conditions the 1040ST lives in,
should I do some much more extensive cleaning of the floppy drive
and/or the whole system. Should I have it "professionally" cleaned?
Where would be a good place for doing same?
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| 360.1 | Clean the disk, not the drive | CSOA1::FISHER | Al Fisher | Tue Jan 03 1989 17:22 | 18 |
| I had a problem with a disk that my 5 yr old placed in our crawl
space. It sat there for several months and when I found it it would
not load at all. I cleaned the surface of the disk with an alcohol
pad!!! I carefully slide the little metal door open, cleaned the
section of the disk that I could see, rotated the disk
inside the jacket, and so forth all the way around the disk.
Works great, has loaded every time since then.
Word of warning though - do NOT use rubbing alcohol. Find someone
in Field Service and have them get you some TEX pads. They are 99.9%
pure alcohol. If you must you could go to a drug store and get some
of this very pure alcohol. Remember - do NOT use plain old rubbing
alcohol.
Good Luck...
Al
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