Re: Woah, my GS is acting FREAKY!

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

In a somewhat related vein...

I don't have a joystick attached to my GS so I know that isn't the problem...

However, my control panel has, on a couple of occasions, actually reset itself 
to GS defaults.  I had it happen again today when I booted the system off the 
Zip Disk which has quite a few extra programs that it starts up.  I was 
presented with an error saying that Appletalk needed to be set up in the 
control panels for (I believe) AppleShare to start up.  Went to the control 
panels and found that it was like it was when I first got the machine.  Could 
I have a battery that needs replaced or something?

In article <38936040.92CA1E33@biz1.net>, Brian Andrew Marek <bmarek@biz1.net> 
wrote:
>Today I was working a bit on my GS, which, up to this point, hadn't
>really done anything strange... I did a ctrl-apple-reset to restart the
>computer, and suddenly instead of rebooting, it went into some strange
>graphics test mode, where it slowly changed the colors of the screen and
>border, then finally played a row of ascending notes and said "system
>okay"... Odd, I thought, and when I hit ctrl-apple-reset, the same damn
>thing happened again... Okay then, let's just shut her down and start
>over from scratch... before it could even access a disk, it gave me a
>menu:
>
>1=Enter the Control Panel.
>2=Set system standards and 60 hertz.
>3=Set system standards and 50 hertz.
>4=Continue restarting the system.
>
>Hitting one brought me the control panel (duh).  I could change anything
>I liked, but nothing seemed to make a lick of difference. When I quit,
>it restarted and gave me the same bloody menu.
>
>Hitting 2 restarted and gave me the same menu.
>
>Hitting 3 made the horizontal hold a bit funky, restarted the system,
>gave me the same menu.
>
>Hitting 4 restarted and gave me the same menu.
>
>Ctrl-apple-reset gave me that weird graphic test mode again.
>
>Oh, and another thing - I have a Transwarp GS on this computer, and at
>no time did it ever access it, do the little Transwarp info graphic,
>nothing.  It didn't even give me Transwarp options on the control panel.
>
>Sooooooo... what GIVES?!?  I can't do anything on the GS any more!
>
>BaM
>