Hi everyone, I received the email below from a Quanta member. Can anyone help? He hasn’t mentioned what add-ons are on his QL, I suspect if it’s a Super Gold Card or Minerva it might be set to restart automatically (e.g. AUTO_TK2F1 or AUTO_TK2F2 on SGC, in which case AUTO_DIS might remove it), or maybe a battery backup failure or such like, but I don’t really know. Anyone able to help him any more than I can? Dilwyn Jones
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My QL/Aurora is behaving oddly. Some time ago, on start-up, the small window which offers a choice between F1, or F2, was briefly glimpsed in a flash, never to be seen again, but the machine started irrespective of this fault. Things remained this way for many months. Then the other day it decided to re-appear, but only for one occasion. Then has disappeared again. The next quirk was that whilst writing a Basic program, which contained a line of the form LINE#6, x1,y1 TO x2,y2, there was a complete refusal to accept a change to the line, but on moving to a similar line in a different part of the program, change to an almost identical line was accepted. The third quirk occurred when using Archive. An alteration to one line in a data record file produced no character from many keyboard presses, but on moving to another data record file in the same data base everything responded as normal. Can anyone deduce from the above, where the problem lies. Is it hardware in the form of a failing chip? Or poor contacts? The machine generally is used in short bursts, to look up an address, or to a record of a transaction. Only during the Basic program writing has it been used for several consecutive hours, and perhaps two weeks of consecutive days. The third quirk occurred after this period of use. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
