Date   : Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:10:00 +1300
From   : mjfoot@... (Michael Foot)
Subject: Sort of OT...Acorn A4 pausing on powerup

In message <13196CDE82034AAFB3BF92E73EF48092@...>
          Mark Haysman <jumbos.bazzar@...> wrote:

> 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. Is this right for an 
> A4? I can't see any mention of it in the Welcome guide? I'd find it odd that 
> several would have the same problem, or is it the Battery Manage module 
> doing some comms..?

Try holding down shift when powered on so that the boot sequence does not 
run. If the delay is still there, it means it's something built into the 
machine or OS that's causing it. Are you using the UniBoot stucture? Also,
there can be a pause if the CDROM filing system (CDFS) has been loaded but
there is no CDROM attached to the machine.

Cheers,

Mike.

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