Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Feb/13 21:05 | Feb28:
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
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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.
Get him to give a full spec.
The startup issue just has to be separate from the other two issues.
If Minerva MKII, lrun miniconfig_bas of course. It is highly likely, if
MIn MKII, his Nicad battery has either died, or is discharged. It is
probably over 10 years old, in which case the battery is beyond its
useful life.
If I had his name, then I could see whether he bought Min from me and when.
Tony
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