Re: Help with bad ][gs's

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 29 Jul 1999 09:14:55 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>It looks like someone has fooled around and made a big practical joke
>on these poor IIGSes.  If someone turned the background, border,
>and text colors to all black, then switched the startup slot to Ramdisk,
>you would see exactly the symptoms you described.

The only way to get the background, border and text colours to all be
black is to write a program to modify the battery RAM or, as you
mentioned, the machine was hit with the BlackOut virus.

>You need to reset the control panel.  Not sure how to do this without
>seeing the text!  You might try disconnecting the battery to start.
>That'll wipe the BRAM (IIGS version of CMOS RAM) and reset
>everything to default.

No need to disconnect the battery.  Just hold down the option key on a
keyboard attached to the IIgs while power it on.  This gives you a
menu of four items:

     1=Enter the Control Panel.
     2=Set system standards and 60 hertz.
     3=Set system standards and 50 hertz.
     4=Continue restarting the system.

Even if you can't see this menu after powering up with the option key
down, all you have to do is press 2 (or 3 if you live in Europe or
some other country that uses 50 hertz power) to reset the battery RAM
to default values.

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