Re: IIgs...long delay and monitor glitches

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labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>Need hlep with these things...
>One, the IIgs takes a _really_ long time to get from the boot-up splash
>screen to where it actually checks the external drives. Would this be
>because of the Apple HS SCSI card in slot 7 without any devices connected?

Yes, that would do it.  The IIGS is making sure there is nothing
to boot in slot 7.  What you should do is go into the control
panel and switch the startup slot from scan or slot 7 to the slot
of the drive you actually wish to boot (or to the 5.25" or the 3.5"
drive connected to the floppy SmartPort).

>Also, the monitor will ocassionally freak out when I turn it on, or while
>I'm using it. Either the image will start fidgeting wildly until it
>stabilizes, or I will turn on the monitor to see the image skewed and
>stretched across the screen in diagonal bands. Sometimes playing with the
>horizontal-position knob on the back of the monitor seems to fix it, but
>it may just be conincidence.

The AppleColor RGB monitor is prone to such problems.
Mine finally died.  Rubywand has a monitor repair manual
that may help, but it involves opening the monitor and thus
exposure to potentially lethal voltages.

>Lastly, as a bonus question, isn't GS/OS supposed to see the mouse even if
>I have a card in slot 4 and set to 'your card'? I was under the impression
>that the 'your card' bit mostly affected 8-bit apps, but imagine my
>surprise when the mouse went dead. And with a SCSI card in 7, not sure
>where else I should put it. Besides, most of the other slots are either
>too far from the port I want to use, or too close to the other card.

GS/OS will only continue to see your mouse with slot 4
set to 'your card' if the IIGS is a ROM 3 IIGS.  It does
not work this way on the ROM 01 IIGS.  It is safe to say
that Apple learned something.  ;-)