RiscPC problem

From	Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com>
Subject	RiscPC problem
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2011-12-22 15:46 +0000
Message-ID	<5245a503c5cvjazz@waitrose.com> (permalink)
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I‘m posting this to comp.sys.acorn.misc & Archive on line.

Help! My trusty RiscPC (running Adjust 4.39) is suddenly not so trusty.

It malfunctioned, (see below) then, after I had left it for an hour in
disgust, it functioned again. It now seems to be back to normal. For future
reference, in case it happens again, can anyone shed light on what is
happening, please?

I got the error message in the circumstances outlined below.

Internal error: abort on instruction fetch at &01370D30

It appears to be always the same address.

The saga is as follows....

Boot sequence would not complete fully. Machine got nearly to the end of the
start-up process then the machine froze. There was no response from mouse or
keyboard so I could do nothing. All was locked. Organizer had loaded & the
first alarm was showing but Menu Bar, which precedes it in the boot order,
did not load so the Boot sequence seems to have jumped over that. I couldn‘t
do Alt/Break to close anything that might be offending because of the nil
response from the keyboard. The time on Organizer appeared correct so I
presumed the CMOS was OK.

I re-started the machine with Shift/Power on to by-pass the Boot sequence.
When I tried to access the hard drive to get at DiscKnight I got that pesky
error message ..

Internal error: abort on instruction fetch at &01370D30

I now had mouse & keyboard working so tried Alt/Break again. Lots of things
could be terminated but no joy in solving the problem.

I tried to load DiscKnight from the floppy drive but got the same results so
it doesn‘t look like a Hard Drive problem.

Any thoughts gratefully received.

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RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-22 15:46 +0000
  Re: RiscPC problem "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2011-12-22 16:28 +0000
    Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-23 00:30 +0000
      Re: RiscPC problem "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2011-12-23 10:02 +0000
        Re: RiscPC problem Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2011-12-25 19:51 +0000
          Re: RiscPC problem Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 02:02 +0100
            Re: RiscPC problem Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2011-12-26 09:31 +0000
              Re: RiscPC problem Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 18:38 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Shepheard <chris.shepheard@chrispics.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 18:54 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 21:16 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-01-03 21:05 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Shepheard <chris.shepheard@chrispics.co.uk> - 2012-01-03 21:36 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-01-03 23:50 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Philip Draper <Philip@borehamh.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-04 09:06 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-01-04 09:41 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Philip Draper <Philip@borehamh.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-04 09:52 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-04 18:14 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-01-04 14:21 +0000
            Re: RiscPC problem Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 17:07 +0000
              Re: RiscPC problem Philip Draper <Philip@borehamh.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 18:41 +0000
            Re: RiscPC problem Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 21:07 +0000
          Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-26 23:56 +0000
            Re: RiscPC problem Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2011-12-27 12:18 +0000
              Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-01-01 16:11 +0000
            Re: RiscPC problem "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2011-12-27 12:26 +0000
          Re: RiscPC problem "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2011-12-26 23:48 +0000
            Re: RiscPC problem Richard Porter <dontusethis@address.uk.invalid> - 2011-12-28 21:33 +0000
              Re: RiscPC problem Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2011-12-30 10:55 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-30 12:20 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2011-12-30 13:25 +0000
              Re: RiscPC problem Richard Torrens <Richard@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-12-31 14:26 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-01-01 16:09 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-01-03 21:16 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-04 18:22 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-01-04 20:34 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-01-04 20:38 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-04 22:52 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Philip Draper <Philip@borehamh.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-05 09:56 +0000
                Re: RiscPC problem Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-05 11:21 +0000
  Re: RiscPC problem druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-12-22 17:40 +0000
    Re: RiscPC problem druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-12-22 17:41 +0000
    Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-23 00:28 +0000
      Re: RiscPC problem Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-23 07:49 +0100
    Re: RiscPC problem Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-23 07:44 +0100
      Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-23 11:36 +0000
      Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-23 12:01 +0000
  Re: RiscPC problem Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2011-12-22 20:07 +0000
    Re: RiscPC problem Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-23 08:08 +0100

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