Sounds like a 'memory location corruption' affecting seemingly random parts of possible buffer areas, is there a memory test for every location that can br run, NOT like the normal QL memory test that isn't?
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Dilwyn Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 -- Regards Lee Privett _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
