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Weird thing happened on my 2gs rom3



Hey guys,
I wanted to know if this has happened to any of you out there.
I had jsut gotten back into using the 2gs after about 10 years.  I
recently upgraded it quite a bit witht the latest and greatest
possible upgrades out in the market today, which include:
-mirodrive with DMA (the fast one)
-TranswarpGS
-Uthercard

So, i had a CMS scsi card and it worked great.  I copied my first
partition to my CF card on my Microdrive.
Now I had sys601 running on my cf drive and everything was great.  I
then started looking back through my notes on everything and noticed
that if I unlocked some of the CDA / NDA files that they would show up
on a reboot of the gs/os in the openapple-control-esc and also in the
apple menu in the finder as well.

Now, here is the weird thing that happened...

I took out my GS-RAM card, the scsi card, and was ready to install
sys601 by disk onto a 128meg CF card from scratch since I wanted a OS
that was fully loaded with new file system and all the drivers loaded.
I did however run into something very odd...when I hit the openapple-
control-esc, I found instead of three options there, there was 5
options there.
I always though that those options were written into the ROM and that
anything else that popped up there was static and would erase on a
reset or turning off the machine.
I cycled the power for a few minutes, and also pulled all cards and
the plug to the apple.
A few minutes later I plugged it back in and still found the extra two
menus.  (keep in mind, I am hitting the openapple-control-esc the
second i turn it on and there is not disk in the drive, no ram card,
no scsi card, and no microdrive inside at all and they were still
there...
These other two options from what I remember were "Break into monitor
now" and "Memory thing" --those are almost the titles of menus along
with the regular three that are always there:Control Panel, ALternate
Display, and QUIT.
I then said, let me pull the battery after unplugging the unit.  That
finally cleared it all and was back to the regular three options.

Can anyone explain what those were??  What did they stay resident??
How did they get there??  Where did they come from??  Do I want to
have them there???  How would I get them back??
Any info would be greatly appreciated...
Also, just to let you know, they both functioned as well...the monitor
broke me ito monitor...and the other one checked the memory in the
machine.---AGAIN, nothing in any slot or drive and the computer was
powered off and then on again and they were still there until i pulled
the battery.