Date   : Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:24:34 +0000
From   : chris@... (Chris Johns)
Subject: Off Topic: problems with my Risc PC

From vague memory the beep is fairy well into the boot sequence so the fact
it gets that far suggests it's 'mostly' booting ok, as does the floppy check.

What monitor is connected? Iirc holding keypad number while powering on sets
the monitor type.

Sent from my iPhone

> On 31 Dec 2014,@18:14, John Kortink <kortink@...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:42:37 +0000, Wookie <bbcmicro@...>
wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 31/12/14 17:06, John Kortink wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'd also try reseating everything that plugs into a
>>> soocket.
>>> 
>>> The failure to blink the 'help !' message is odd ...
>> 
>> The floppy drive flashes it's LED once and it tried to spin the drive 
>> for a second so I'm guessing that is okay.
>> 
>> I get the flash of the 3 keyboard LED's and a beep. I can toggle the 
>> num-lock, scroll-lock and caps-lock on and off.
>> 
>> I'll try reseating everything, I've already stripped it down to a basic 
>> machine, just memory, cpu and floppy drive. I've checked the psu 
>> voltages they are all ok. The only thing I haven't tried reseating yet 
>> is the Risc OS 4.02 roms....
> 
> If all that actually works, I would guess there's only a display
> problem. Have you tried *Configure MonitorType 3 or 4 ?
> 
> 
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