> My machine has been doing the high flashing rate occasionly for some > time now, but when start to flash quickly I tap the board lightly, > and it goes back to normal. > > I just put it down to a faulty connection somewhere. > > The snag is I have to leave the cover off. > > Arnold I just put the MinisQL back together without the Qubide and thought things were back to normal. Visually, it seems so, but try checking how long a PAUSE lasts (this was a suggestion from Nasta) and something is indeed amiss.
Could you and any MinisQL or Aurora users try running this short superbasic program for me and tell me if your results are as expected. My trials on my machine indicate that a PAUSE command only lasts about 1/3 as long as it should. The system clock is unaffected and keeps time OK, so it looks like something is happening to make the normal 50Hz interrupt go by 3 times too fast even without the Qubide connected - something must be generating extra interrupts somewhere and I'd like to see if it's just this machine or if this is a more common problem with Aurora based systems. I can offer the results to Nasta to see if it will help him determine a cause (I'm grateful to him for several emails today trying to help me). Try medium length pauses like 3000 and 16384, which should take 60 and 327 seconds respectively (on this Aurora they take just 20 and 115 seconds respectively). Results will only be approximate of course. 100 CLS : CLS #0 110 INPUT #0,'Pause length > ';p 120 time1 = DATE 130 PAUSE p 140 time2 = DATE 150 BEEP 5000,0 160 PRINT'PAUSE ';p;' took ';time2-time1+1;' seconds' 170 PRINT'It shuld have taken ';p/50;' seconds' _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
