Date   : Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:12:24 -0000
From   : Chesterton Andrew-BLUW13 <andrew.chesterton@...>
Subject: Re: Broken BBC Master Compact

Hi Michael,
       It looks as if the BBC was connected to an Econet network, try doing a 
CTRL-D-BREAK That should make the disk interface the primary file source, 
you should then be able to edit the config file so that it ignores the Econet
interface. I can't remember the commands for doing this, but I'm sure somebody
else can help on that one.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Lasham [mailto:mlasham@...]
Sent: 17 December 2001 18:19
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Broken BBC Master Compact


Hi

I've just purchased an old BBC Master Compact.
I've not used a BBC since about 1984 at school :)
Anyway when I power on I get a continous Beep sound
and one of the following messages on my screen, they
change everynow and then on power on.  The keyboard
bar the reset key does not work.

"Invalid station id"
"BBC MOS" or "BBS MDS"
"BBC Basic >"
"* BBS MOS" or "*BBS MDS"

Pressing the break key resets the system to give the
same fault.  Once I managed to change the resolution of
the screen but nothing else worked still (not sure
how I did it :)  )

Any ideas as to what could be wrong.

I dont have any other devices appart from the system and
monitor.

thanks
Michael.





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