Is my atmos dying?
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:57 pm
I have a strange problem with my Atmos.
I was not having such problem at all in previous years. But it's acting like this since few months. (maybe since beginnig of this summer..)
When I plug the power cable, regular black-white blocks are seen on the screen but instead of booting to normal Oric atmos ready message, it just stays in that page and hangs up.
I plug and unplug the power cable few times and then it boots normally. When it's booted, I can run atmos, load programs from media player device playing wav files and play it normally for a long time until I had to unplug and plug power.
I don't know if this situation is related to my cumulus run attempts but I observe that, it started after I try to run cumulus many times and failed. Some of you will remember that my atmos was not running my cumulus. But now I am not using expansion bus for cumulus with this device.
Thanks god I have a second (end new) atmos sent by Steve which can also run Cumulus. But I don't know what is happening with my first Oric.
Sometimes I had to plug & unplug ten times or more to boot it up with success. Normally it should boot in seconds..
Do you think this could be a memory chip failure indicator? As far as I know, Oric controls memory chips during that white-black bars screen before start-up
Maybe this information helps : It does not matter if I run oric for the first time or run it more than hours. Sometimes it boots in the first attempt. Sometimes after many trials and fails.. So I think its not due to warm-up or over-usage..
If you think its because of failing of memory, can we find any replacements for them? Or do you have any suggestions for detecting the problem and solution?
Thank you.
I was not having such problem at all in previous years. But it's acting like this since few months. (maybe since beginnig of this summer..)
When I plug the power cable, regular black-white blocks are seen on the screen but instead of booting to normal Oric atmos ready message, it just stays in that page and hangs up.
I plug and unplug the power cable few times and then it boots normally. When it's booted, I can run atmos, load programs from media player device playing wav files and play it normally for a long time until I had to unplug and plug power.
I don't know if this situation is related to my cumulus run attempts but I observe that, it started after I try to run cumulus many times and failed. Some of you will remember that my atmos was not running my cumulus. But now I am not using expansion bus for cumulus with this device.
Thanks god I have a second (end new) atmos sent by Steve which can also run Cumulus. But I don't know what is happening with my first Oric.
Sometimes I had to plug & unplug ten times or more to boot it up with success. Normally it should boot in seconds..
Do you think this could be a memory chip failure indicator? As far as I know, Oric controls memory chips during that white-black bars screen before start-up
Maybe this information helps : It does not matter if I run oric for the first time or run it more than hours. Sometimes it boots in the first attempt. Sometimes after many trials and fails.. So I think its not due to warm-up or over-usage..
If you think its because of failing of memory, can we find any replacements for them? Or do you have any suggestions for detecting the problem and solution?
Thank you.