Tony Firshman wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 at 21:01:56, Robert Newson wrote: > (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >>Mine's still sitting on my desk; however it isn't working at the moment (I >>suspect a ULA) :-( >> > What are the symptoms?
Clears desk to get access to QL... It's been rather erratic when I last used it. I was trying to do some programming when it just kept corrupting - name table did silly things, etc and it was impossible to list (etc) the program on which I was working. Prior to that I had changed my GC battery and on re-insertion of GC, QL wouldn't work. I also had ICE ROM installed. Removed both GC & ICE and it seemed to work again. So had GC checked and it came back AOK. Then QL kept crashing and not even booting WITHOUT any extra peripherals - ie just the QL itself (it has had one personal mod *years* ago in that I changed (upgraded) the voltage regulator - as per instrs in QL mag [poss QL World]). Having just switched it on for the first time in ages, it has booted up without problem and is currently playing Psion Chess against itself (demo) in 3D Mode. I've had to resort back to my hacked (personal mod [again]) Phillips TX B&W TV (hacked in a Video input to bypass the demodulator which doesn't work) as my colour monitor died when I tried to use the QL after a long break (having finally got a replacement GC battery); the QL started playing up at around the same time. I suspect the last colour monitor wasn't doing the QL any good as prior to that monitor I had a rebadged Phillips TTL monitor (an Archimedes monitor) which worked fine (until it died and my brother took it to be fixed, never to be seen again), even when I did a dual display with a TV as well to show the difference in quality - the last colour monitor caused the TV output to visibly degrade considerably if run at the same time. I did have an odd occurence years ago when I removed the dead battery from the GC; on reinsertion of GC the QL didn't work and I thought it was fried, but it just started working again. I have just tried to re-insert the GC and it crashes on boot. Without it, it booted ok, so haven't tried to re-re-insert. Have subsequently tried ICE ROM and it has booted ok. Would poss suggest GC, but that *WAS* checked and found Ok - implying poss fault on expansion port of QL? Robert -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Newson, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
