Crash and will not restart

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Crash and will not restart

Postby polyex » Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:07 pm

My CFFA 3000 is inside an Apple IIe enhanced and is using physically using slot 7 and virtually #6 for floppy drives with 3 smart ports on. I have 2 other cards in the machine, an Apple 80 col on slot #3 and a Mockingboard on slot#4. I left Taipain running for about 2 hours (at the title screen) and the Apple dropped to the monitor. If I restart by toggling the power, the CFFA 3000 will start to boot a hard drive image, but crash to monitor. If I remove the CFFA 3000 I can boot to my floppy drive (Slot #5) and the computer behaves normally. If I let things cool down a bit by keeping the computer off for 10 minutes, everything seems to start working again. I am running 3.1 firmware. This has happened with other programs as well when they are left running (buzzard bait is another).
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Re: Crash and will not restart

Postby polyex » Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:49 pm

After some more testing. If I remove the compact flash card itself, I am able to run for hours without a crash.
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Re: Crash and will not restart

Postby david__schmidt » Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:06 pm

It could be the power supply is getting marginal - and/or heat is fatiguing it. I wonder if doing something else to unload it (i.e. taking out the Mockingboard) would keep it running?
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Re: Crash and will not restart

Postby polyex » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:49 am

Will try pulling the Mockingboard.
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Re: Crash and will not restart

Postby polyex » Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:26 am

It appears that my problem may be electrical in my home. I have a laser printer that was causing lights to flicker, since I have unplugged the printer , I have not seen crashes on the Apple IIe.
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