Re: Problem with Apple //e boot ... help?

[mirageeso@aol.com (MirageESO)]

In article <20010306192300.23086.00000089@ng-fu1.aol.com>,
kellihanb@aol.comDelete (KellihanB) writes:

>
>Hello,
>
>   I just got a new Apple //e (well to me anyways).  I admit I'm new to Apple
>][, so if this is a simple thing, just let me know :-)  
>   I plugged everything in and popped in an Apple ][ Desktop disk and it
>booted
>up fine.  (runs on ProDOS 8, dated sometime in August of 1988).  No problem..
>
>Well I turn it off.  I turn it back on... problem.
>   Never having really used Apple //e hardware I'm a little confused.  It
>goes
>"beep beep" and then I'm in what looks like a machine language monitor.  I
>tried a few one letter commands... s doesn't do anything.  l lists a few
>lines
>in hex I think.  The odd thing is turning it off and back on, it remebers
>what
>was on screen before.  Goes "beep beep" and displays a new line and gives an
>*
>for a prompt.. How do I get out of this?  I've turned it back off a while
>thinking it might "forget" after sometime, but no effect?  Is there a key
>sequence to get out of this?  And what the heck is it?  a Machine language
>monitor?  I thought this would go to Basic if no disk was detected... 
>  Please note that this is the enhanced version of the //e (or so the
>keyboard
>says..)
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Bret
>

Might want to wait about 10 to 20 seconds after powering off before powering
back on.  I have the same problem with my old //e with ROMBoot card installed. 
If you are still having problems after the wait, you might want to reseat all
the cards in the machine (while powered *OFF*).  Make sure you take all
possible anti-static precautions cause I hear that cmos stuff is really static
sensitive.

John in Stillwater (with his //e cleaning stuff....)