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Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please

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          cdecordova <chrisdecordova@gmail.com> haben Sie geschrieben:

> It's an A5000 running RO3.7

> I either get it flashing through the colours and sticking on red -
> with multiple horizontal black lines

> or occasionally as far as

> risc os 4988 (or simimlar)
> supervisor
> *

> I have tried R+ break,

> CTRL + anything does not work.

> Any ideas please?

Hallo,

has the A5000 perhaps been stored a longer time before you recently 
powered it up again?
In this case it could be, that the CMOS-battery is defect/empty and 
your CMOS-settings are unrestorable or meaningless for the computer.
Sometimes, if the battery is changed or charged (I don't know if the 
A5000 has an rechargable or real battery builtin) and if the 
rechargeable battery isn't defect (Poweron the Computer and regardless 
of it's behaviour let it on for some minutes) you could poweron and 
press the delete-button the same time, to reset the whole CMOS.

Another reason could be, that after your Poweron-Reset +Break all
CMOS-settings are deleted/resetted and now any podules (e.g. IDE, SCSI 
etc.) must be found again. This procedure sometimes take a while, so 
after Poweron you could try waiting some minutes or so, with a bit of 
luck it will boot to the desktop.
Otherwise, if you get a *-Prompt, try typing "desktop" to boot to 
desktop.

Hope this helps a bit.

Greetings, Jürgen

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failure to complete Boot - any help please cdecordova <chrisdecordova@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 07:54 -0800
  Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please freak6767@freakmail.de - 2016-01-17 23:16 +0100
    Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2016-01-17 23:55 +0000
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        Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2016-01-19 02:11 +0000
          Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please freak6767@freakmail.de - 2016-01-20 00:01 +0100
            Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2016-01-19 23:30 +0000
            Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please cdecordova <chrisdecordova@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 02:22 -0800
        Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please "Chris Evans (CJE/4D)" <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2016-01-20 09:57 +0000
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  Re: failure to complete Boot - any help please Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2016-01-17 23:46 +0000
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