Re: IIgs Trouble (Crashes When Loading System 6)

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Aug 1, 9:51 pm, Tempest <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> My IIgs (ROM 3) is acting up and I have no idea what the problem is.
> When I attempt to start System 6 from either the hard drive or a disk
> it shows the Welcome to System 6 screen for a second or two but before
> the load bar even starts to move it crashes to a screen full of little
> squares.  Some times the squares are solid green and sometimes they're
> half pink and half green, but they're always in a little 10 x 24 grid
> and look sort of like the old Apple II low-res pixels.
>
> At first I thought it might be my Transwarp but I had it run through
> all its tests and everything comes back as working.  I fired up
> Transylvania 3 to see if the system itself was working (cool game BTW)
> and everything worked just fine (it didn't think it was funny when I
> tried to kill death).  I even tried setting the Transwarp speed to
> normal, but no change. I'm at a loss as to what the problem could be.
> If it was hardware related you'd think that nothing would work.  I'm
> going to try and hook everything back up to my ROM 01 and see if the
> problem fixes itself, but I really don't like to move the Transwarp
> around so much.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tempest

Try moving everything BUT the Transwarp to the ROM 01 and try again,
for starters. IIGSes, especially ROM 3s, IME, can be rather flaky with
some stuff working, some stuff not.