atrax27407 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, I was faced with a daunting problem. I turned my TI on and was greeted with a lockup instead of my usual MENU screen. More puzzling was the fact that the light on my HRD16 stayed on along with the AVPC card. I reckoned that maybe there was a problem with the battery in the HRD16 since it has been more than five years since I got it. I tried to resolve the problem by pulling the battery jumper which should have effectively dumped the ROS and erased the contents of the RAMdisk ( I had everything backed up). No dice! When I put the HRD16 back in the P-Box and powered up I had excatly the same result. Time for a repair. I packed up the HRD16 and sent it off to Richard Bell who is the best and most knowlegeable about such things. He kept the HRD16 for about a week and thoroughly tested it. Nothing appeared to be wrong at all. Strange. indeed. I got it back today in the mail. I got out the "canned air" and gave the contacts in the P-Box a couple of long blasts. Richard was kind enough to have changed the CRU addres to >1900 (it had been >1800). I reloaded the ROS and the contents and, much to my relief, I'm up and running as normal. The only thing that I can figure out is that my TI was attacked by Gremlins! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Those little bastards! I have never been able to catch them.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I saw them once... Tried to catch em on video. They looked like the rolling "worms" on Invaders... Even had the same pixel definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I like Gremlins as it usually means Pheobe Cates is not far behind, and that is OKAY WITH ME. OH YEAH BABY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Just don't feed them after midnight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I like to give mine a bath! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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