Re: IIgs Trouble (Crashes When Loading System 6)

[rich12345 <aiiadict@gmail.com>]

On Aug 1, 6:51 pm, Tempest <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> My IIgs (ROM 3) is acting up and I have no idea what the problem is.
> When I attempt to start System 6 from either the hard drive or a disk
> it shows the Welcome to System 6 screen for a second or two but before
> the load bar even starts to move it crashes to a screen full of little
> squares.  Some times the squares are solid green and sometimes they're
> half pink and half green, but they're always in a little 10 x 24 grid
> and look sort of like the old Apple II low-res pixels.
>
> At first I thought it might be my Transwarp but I had it run through
> all its tests and everything comes back as working.  I fired up
> Transylvania 3 to see if the system itself was working (cool game BTW)
> and everything worked just fine (it didn't think it was funny when I
> tried to kill death).  I even tried setting the Transwarp speed to
> normal, but no change. I'm at a loss as to what the problem could be.
> If it was hardware related you'd think that nothing would work.  I'm
> going to try and hook everything back up to my ROM 01 and see if the
> problem fixes itself, but I really don't like to move the Transwarp
> around so much.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tempest

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