At 03:40 μμ 11/9/2002, you wrote:
>Phoebus, my Minis-QL Aurora system sometimes fails to start. The cure >is to remove or clean contacts on the EPROM cartridge which contains >the SuperHErmes code. As it's a RomDisq in your case, I doubt it's >this but this does seem to be the one thing not tried yet. In worst >cases, mine would completely fail to start, the SGC gave a 'contact >Miracle Systems' message and stripes ont he screen. >Dilwyn Jones Hi Dilwyn, That was the first thing I tried :-) I had from time to time similar problems with the RomDisq but it wasn't its fault but rather the adapter's (The Romdisq was working great with my QL all the time - It's rom port is gold plated... probably courtesy of its previous owner - I don't think that short of plunging the Romdisq in acid, there's something else that can make it faulty - PLUG PLUG PLUG :-) ) However, no joy in this case... I took out everything humanely possible... I even took out the Ingot and Glue (i think that's its name) chips from the SGC and cleaned their pins... but nothing NOTHING works. The systems starts fine but once you spend 3 to 4 minutes it hopelessly crashes... Something heats up and that something I haven't found yet... My next move will be to get zero temp. spray to start spraying one by one the chips to see if the system will last longer in order to identify what doesn't work. The results of the crashes are usually one of the following: Green screen upon cold or hot restart White screen upon cold or hot restart Vertical Stripes (Green Black White Red) beggining from the end of the screen area (approx 8 to 10 pixels in height) that fill slowly the screen from the bottom right going left) Plain ole hang with usually a small colour pattern of about 5 pixels in width and two pixels in height either in the middle right of top right (not totally at the edge) of the screen... Especially the last two lead me to believe that the Aurora's screen ram has been compromised somehow (Of course something else MAY copy garbage up there but that's up to the experts to decide what :-) Phoebus P.S. Your CDs have arrived... btw I made new covers for all of them and I will be sending them to you shortly (Once I sort this mess out...)
