Re: Flaky TWGS?

[tony@shakala.com (Tony Andrews)]

joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:

> 
> When I turned on my IIGS this morning, I was immediately greeted with a
> black screen with white writing that said something like "TransWarp
> Failure". It also said to turn the machine off for 20 seconds and try again.
> So, I did, and my system booted up as normal.
> 
> That reminds me...about a month ago, I had a very very weird problem. In the
> Finder, I had multi-colored "snow" (don't know what else to call it), so I
> ended up running the TWGS diagnostics, and it failed. But, aside from these
> 2 minor incidents, my GS has been fine.
> 
> Has anyone experienced anything like this with a TWGS? If so...what to do?
> Should I ignore it, or should I pull out the TWGS and re-seat the chips and
> wiggle the pins?
> 
> I have a 7Mhz TWGS with the 32K cache, and one of the cables with a dot on
> it. Any suggestions.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Joe Kohn


What does your TransWarp GS give as the manufacturing date? Mine is a 
vintage Copyright 1988 model and I occaisionally get the same thing. Very 
seldomly, I get that black screen telling to wait 20 seconds and then try 
a reboot and I do and the system always reboots. I get it at odd times, 
but only about every 3 to 4 months as an average. If someone can offer a 
suggestion as to what the problem may be, I think that we both could 
learn from it.

Tony


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