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RiscPC starts up at the supervisor prompt. |
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Bonez (08:39 28/8/2013)
CJE (10:52 28/8/2013)
helpful (10:56 28/8/2013)
Bonez (18:58 28/8/2013)
apdl (09:59 29/8/2013)
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Bonez |
Message #122602, posted by Bonez at 08:39, 28/8/2013 |
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One of my RiscPC starts up at the supervisor prompt. They seems to be no response from the keyboard. Reseting holding down the R key brings desktop ok. On restart from the desktop it will boot to the supervisor prompt again until I reset-R.
Any suggestions on why this could be happening?
Arm710 with 64 megs of ram, 6 gig hdd and RiscOS 3.6 |
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Chris Evans |
Message #122603, posted by CJE at 10:52, 28/8/2013, in reply to message #122602 |
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Power on R only resets certain settings.
Power On Delete is what you need.
Have you checked the battery for leakage/going furry? |
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Bryan Hogan |
Message #122604, posted by helpful at 10:56, 28/8/2013, in reply to message #122602 |
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Sounds like the CMOS is not working. Have you checked the battery to make sure it isn't furry/leaking? Does the clock keep going when the machine is turned off?
Something to watch out for - IIRC a 6GB drive on RO3.6 would need "*configure ADFSBuffers 0" to avoid disc corruptions, and the reset-R will probably have set it to a non-zero value. |
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Bonez |
Message #122605, posted by Bonez at 18:58, 28/8/2013, in reply to message #122604 |
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The battery is new and no sign of damage on the moboo. Thanks for the replies.
The system doesn't set the clock at all apart from the month.
Edit: Seems the cmos has gone heywire I guess the PO left it far too long before doing a battery change. What I don't understand is Reset-Del boots from the hdd.
Still open to ideas though.
[Edited by Bonez at 08:17, 29/8/2013] |
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David Holden |
Message #122606, posted by apdl at 09:59, 29/8/2013, in reply to message #122605 |
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The battery is new and no sign of damage on the moboo. Thanks for the replies.
The system doesn't set the clock at all apart from the month.
Edit: Seems the cmos has gone heywire I guess the PO left it far too long before doing a battery change. What I don't understand is Reset-Del boots from the hdd. The default for a RiscPC is to boot from ADFS::4 so that's correct behaviour.
Check that there's power to the CMOS chip (should be 5v on pin 8 with power on and about 1.2v with power off) and also that the battery circuit is charging. Battery +ve to 0V should be over 2v with power on and about 1.2v with power off. |
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