Re: Missing Quickdraw text in System 6

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Mark Cummings writes ...
> 
> Something funny has happened to one of my GS's. Funny-strange, not
> funny-ha-ha. :)
> This has only just started to happen, it was working in the same
> configuration before.
> When I boot my Focus 500MB with System 6.0.1 the desktop comes up with no
> text being drawn AT ALL. Otherwise it still seems to come up and all the
> menu's seem to work, except I can't read black and white blocks, just use my
> memory of where the menu options are. All the icon's look OK, & the mouse
> works.
> 
> The only other card in this machine is a 4MB RAM card GS JUICE PLUS.
> 
> - I moved the HDD to the other GS with 8Mb Sirius RAM, and it works fine.
> - I tried the HDD in slot 2 and slot 6 in the original machine with the same
> problem.
> - I ran a memory test on the 4MB RAM card and it passed.
> - I re-seated the ROM chip (ROM1), although I havn't tried to swap it with
> the other GS yet. (both ROM1's). I am still suspicious of the ROM chip.
> - I booted the /SYSTEM disk from the 6.0.1 floppy and all the text comes up
> OK, and it look good but when I tried to run a HDD disk-verify on the first
> partition it locked up part way through, and I had to reboot.
> - I tried to enter the control panel (ctrl-AO-Esc) and I got a 40 col crash
> with some random chars on the screen. again I had to re-boot.
> 
> Now it looks like I'm down to the Motherboard or less likely the Power
> Supply. I am also suspicious of the RAM on the motherboard, but don't know
> how to test that.
> Anyone seen this before, or know what's going on. Why would I just lose the
> Quickdraw text on the desktop and not the icons. ? ? ?
> 
 ....

     Don't know anything about the GS JUICE PLUS card. Have you tried putting
your Serius RAM card into the Expansion Memory Slot?

     You don't mention trying the Focus drive in Slot 7. Slot 7 is where it
likes to be.

     Does it seem like things went bad after running some particular piece of
software? Anyway, you might try scrapping any "Desktop" files in you Icons
folders. (When these become corrupted all sorts of weird stuff can happen.)



Rubywand