Date   : Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:46:00 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Sort of OT...Acorn A4 pausing on powerup

2009/3/13 Mark Haysman <jumbos.bazzar@...>:
> Hi Folks.
>
> For those of you with an A4, I've got several here, and of the ones that
> don't have other faults, they seem to exhibit the same issue, in that after
> they've booted to desktop for a few seconds, they tend to pause for 3-4
> seconds, just the once, before carrying on as normal.

I don't have an A4, but I've never experienced this with any of the
(many) RISC OS machines that I own or have owned in the past. Although
given the OS's co-operative multitasking nature, it could quite well
be something like a module initialising something and hogging the
machine while it's doing it. You've already mentioned the power
management, another thing that springs into my mind is networking if
they're fitted with a network interface.

-- 
Alex Taylor