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HELP! My GS keeps Crashing!!




Can someone please help me get my GS to work right?  Please?

	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."  When this happens, I
can't use or even erase the files without initializing it.  I
have the RAM5 driver from GS/OS 6.0.1 installed, and it still
does this.  The amount it can hold before failure is
proportional to the size of the RamDisk as well.
	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.
	Okay, so that's every bit of info that I can think of
about the problem... please, please help me!!
	Oh, and with the Ramcard istalled, the "about system"
window said I had about 7.1Megs of memory total....  I don't
know where is got the extra meg from (5 meg card + 1 meg on
board) but I mention it because I assume it means that it was
recognizing all of the GSRam card.
	Thanks for any help anyone has to offer... 

*** my address is frankj3@rpi.edu ***

Jim Frankel