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Article #41777Re: Flaky 1040st
From: Dana L. Holt
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 16:46
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 16:46
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In article <9003072218.AA03079@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, cantwell@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (Jeff Cantwell) writes:
> Help! My 3 year old 1040ST seems to be getting a bit flaky lately. I
> get frequent bombs when trying to run software that used to be fine.
> Mostly I get three bombs (address error), or two bombs (bus error),
> and an occasional TOS error #35. I am also getting messages that the
> disks are unreadable or may be damaged, but after several tries, or
> rebooting they work fine. I am using commercial and public domain
> software that has not been any problem in the past, such as
> Starglider, WordPerfect, ABCD, Daleks, etc. These reside on different
> floppy disks. I just have the one doublesided floppy drive (no hard drive),
> and I have never performed any maintenance on it. Could I simply have
> a dirty disk mechanism or do I have more serious troubles? If so, is there
> a drive cleaning kit available for the ST? I have also considered the
> problem of heat, but leaving the machine off all night and trying
> programs in the morning does not help at all.
>
It sounds like (to me) that it's a disk problem. I'd get a 3.5 in.
drive head cleaner and give that a try TOS #35 error code is (*I THINK*)
'a corrupted (unexecutable) program'. Hope this helps..
dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tiamat!mjbtn!raider!dlh From: dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Dana L. Holt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Flaky 1040st Message-ID: <193@raider.MFEE.TN.US> Date: 9 Mar 90 16:46:46 GMT References: <9003072218.AA03079@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> Organization: RaiderNet Public Access, Murfreesboro, TN Lines: 34