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In article: <4km9k2$sei@news.ox.ac.uk>  pe96001@sable.ox.ac.uk (Mario Miniaci) writes:
> 
> I shall tell you a tell of hardware, desperation and atrocious bad luck...
> 
> My tale begins in July 1995, where I bought an SX-1 for my cute but
> lonely CD32. The ugly great box promised much, and almost
> delivered. Within the week I bought an HD and 4 megs of ram to improve
> things, and it was okay apart from the HD never booting. "Fine", said
> I. I returned the SX-1 to the shop, where it was replaced after a few
> months. Tried again. Still no HD booting, but I would have put up with
> that were it not for the duff parallel port too. That was in
> October. In March, after excessive telephony, I received my new
> SX-1... but without the hard disk and ram that I had returned (to see
> if they were interfering with each other). Even more hassle and
> phoning finally got me a replacement hd and ram; I should have gone to
> the Office of Fair Trade by then. Well, finally I had a working
> system: ram, hd and SX-1 all going along dandy. Then a few weeks ago,
> the price of ram crashes (as it were) and I thought that selling my 4
> meg simm and buying an 8 meg one would be wise. The first 8 meg simm
> that arrived did not work with the SX-1 but a PC (spit) had no
> problem. I sent it back and asked for one that did work with the SX-1,
> or else a 4 meg simm that worked and the difference. Well, this
> morning that 4 meg simm arrived... but it wouldn't work if the hard
> disk was installed. I'm using a Goliath p.s.u., so it should have
> enough power.
> Here's the worst: once I put it all back together, having resigned
> myself to just sending the SX-1 back again, I foolishly decided to
> finish a letter and print it out. I hit the power button, there was a
> smell of smoke and the power light went out.
> 
> I now have to have the CD32 repaired, and I want rid of the SX-1 for
> good. Can anyone tell me if I'm jinxed, or has anyone else had this
> problem? Also, what are my chances of getting the supplier of the SX-1
> to pay for my repair?
> 
> Watch out, it's an unlucky world out there...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mario Miniaci (mario.miniaci@spc.ox.ac.uk)
> 
> 
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Oh Dear... Sorry to hear about your bad luck.

But your setup will not boot-up the Hard Disk, straight off!!

WHY! Well its because the Kickstart in the CD32 was not designed
to bootup a hard disk, so you will have to create a Boot Disk, we
will include one in our internet pages in the Next day or so...

How do we know the CD32 Kickstart is the problem??

Well we used a Kickstart 3.0 emulator, so we get presented with the
Flying Disk screen ... like an A1200.

When the Kickstart 3.0 was run, the Hard disk booted fine! so it
was the Kickstart!.... Do not alter the priority of the HARD DISK, 
otherwise you will messup your CD Games.

OUR BOOT DISK WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 16/4/1996



= Darren Evans =======
Amiga Projects Manager
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