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Booting E4 Platinum gets stuck

PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:04 pm
by info
Hi there, Paul @Zuonics here. My development machine ( which is an E4 Platinum) has stopped booting. When I turn it on the EMU logo appears, but the "Software: EOS v4.70" text box takes longer than usual to appear . When the text box does appear, the boot process then gets stuck, never progressing any further.

I was wondering has anybody else experienced a similar problem? I tried re-installing EOS 4.70 using ELoader but the problem hasn't gone away.


Paul Meehan

PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:24 am
by Lurkr
have you tried booting it from a floppy? maybe your HD is in need of repair/replacement. if you have any other scsi devices connected, maybe disconnect all of them and add them one by one?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:51 pm
by info
Lurkr wrote:have you tried booting it from a floppy? maybe your HD is in need of repair/replacement. if you have any other scsi devices connected, maybe disconnect all of them and add them one by one?


Hi, thanks for your post. I opened the case and disconnected the HD and also disconnected all SCSI devices. No luck. I'm wondering is it a power supply problem (some component not getting enough) or maybe a ROM/FLASH problem.

Paul Meehan

PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:35 pm
by Lurkr
I don't know about a power supply problem, I don't think it'd power up... sounds like repair shop time unless you have another one you can swap out parts with...

PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:36 pm
by altus
First thing I'd do is swap out the CPU RAM stick for another known-to-be-working one and see if it helps. Also, reseat the CPU Flash and all ROMs, connectors, ribbon cables, etc to rule out oxidation/chip creep/anything mechanical. If that doesn't help, it's shop time.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:56 pm
by info
altus wrote:First thing I'd do is swap out the CPU RAM stick for another known-to-be-working one and see if it helps. Also, reseat the CPU Flash and all ROMs, connectors, ribbon cables, etc to rule out oxidation/chip creep/anything mechanical. If that doesn't help, it's shop time.


I recall hearing some weird clicking from the vicinity of the unit, so I turned it off. Powering up again the problem appeared. Unsure what's up..