Re: HELP! My GS keeps Crashing!!

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In article <539maq$53gj@matisse.its.rpi.edu>, frankj3@rpi.edu (James
Frankel) writes:

>....
>	Okay, so here is the lowdown on my system and when it
>crashes.
>	I have a ROM 3 gs, with a RamFAST (chip RF301eZ), a
>GSRam plus rev d with 5 Megs installed, and a quantum 40Meg
>drive.  Um... and a 3.5 drive.
>	Okay, so I'm having lots of probelms.  
>	The first is that I when I make a RamDisk, I can only
>put so much stuff on it before I get the error:
>"error $0051 --  Directory Damaged." ....
>
>	AND, the other problem is much more serious, but less
>well defined.  Mostly it seems when I copy large groups of stuff at once,
it
>can crash, and crash hard.  The border always changes color,
>the main screen often changes color, and the screen seems to
>slide up, so it's all warped and brite at the top.  When this
>happens, I have to shut the computer off to fix it... no warm
>boot.  A warm boot just gives garbage on the screen.
>	Here is how I have the RamFAST set up.  a 31meg and 9
>meg partition, with the "options" settings on:  
>DMA-- ON
>TranswarpGS off
>Hmmm, I can't remeber the other ones, but all of the rest of
> the setting are standard ones.
>	I was prompted to write because last night, I read
>that the system 6.0.1 driver shouldn't be installed with a
>ramfast, so I took it out, made a big RamDisk, and tried to
>copy a bunch of stuff.  I crashed so hard that when I turned
>it back on I got the error "Fatal system error", and it would
> not boot untill i REMOVED the ram card.  I figured that
>I would just leave it out and it would work okay, but it
>still crashes now, in the same cool "turn orange and slide up
>the screen" way when I try to copy stuff... Oh, and now I have
>DMA off.
>....


     Has your IIgs ever worked correctly? If it has, when did it 'go
bad'-- i.e. was stuff added, changes made, etc.?

     The "turn orange and slide up the screen" business sounds too
consistent and organized to be system failure. (Perhaps someone with virus
experience will know if your system has been infected.)   Perhaps some
Init, etc. is bombing.

     One fairly quick-fix try is to remove all Icons folders except the
one on your boot volume; remove Desktop from the remaining Icons folder;
remove all screen savers; remove any non-essential Inits.   



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