Date   : Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:24:17 -0000
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: Sort of OT...Acorn A4 pausing on powerup

>> 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.

I've never seen other machines do it, but all the (working) A4s I have do 
it, which tends to make me think it's a "quirk" of the system. Putting the 
Econet card in or out still does the same thing, but I haven't as yet tried 
removing the ROM with the Battery manager software in....may try that next 
time I have one open.

Mark.