Re: MiNT 1.15.1.beta-1 problems

[Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> if/when an AES application crashes, mint is completely killed after
> and the TT freezes dead (ie: there is NO "fatal error" message).
> Pressing the RESET button does not reset the hardware as expected.
> Instead, the screen becomes black with tiny white distortion lines.
> After that, the only solution is to completely turn off the TT.

An acquaintance had a problem that sounds very similar to what you mention
with his TT. It turned out it was because of faulty TT RAM.

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