Nasty problem in OS3.9

[dougal]

Once in a while it does actually boot up properly. It just did now.

But i tried loading something (SysSpeed from the OS3.9 partition) and it didnt load. no messages nothing. Then the mouse moves and all, but if i click on an icon or close button it shows the click but does nothing. same with right clock, i see the rightclick options but they do nothing.

Now i reset and tried loading a game in whdload and it loaded perfectly. Note games are on a different partition.

This is really messed up

[dougal]

When machine freezes, is the HD light constantly on?

Nope. There is no HD access and the light is off

[dougal]

Really sounds to me like your hard drive is broken.  You will need to get a new hard drive and reinstall OS 3.9 on it, along with any stuff you backed up.

The problems appear to be from the OS3.9 partition.

[dougal]

Hmm, assuming you have a backup of all your important stuff from the 3.9 partition, could you format that partition and re-install OS3.9 from scratch? I had to do that to a 3GB SCSI partition that was acting odd.....

Hmmm well i guess ill give that a go this weekend.

Ill probably be opening another thread asking for advice on a replacement hard drive soon.

Thanks and thanks to everyone else who helped me.

[dougal]

Try setting MaxTransfer value to your OS39-partition to 0x1fe00 in HDToolBox.

Could that help?

OS3.9 has been installed since December and it was fine until recently

[dougal]

Interesting to note is that i found that if I go into the early startup before booting and then click on boot, OS3.9 loads up properly.

But even so, once loaded if i try and load most stuff from that partition, the program does not load and i get the thing where i can move the mouse , left click and right click are acknoleged , but they do nothing.

But why would going into early startup (and doing nothing) and then pressing Boot make OS3.9 load up with no freezing.

[dougal]

I ran VirusZIII as recomended and it keeps popping up a window saying it found Fungus/LSD virus and removed it from memory. But every time i click continue and 3 seconds later it pops up again.

EDIT: I read about this virus and it says it is common that c:mount would be affected. so i checked that file and it was in fact infected. I disinfected it and OS3.9 (touch wood) appears to be working perfectly.

http://www.vht-dk.dk/amiga/desc/txt/fungus.htm

EDIT: Wow the Amiga (on all partitions) has literally hundreds if not thousands of files infected with this virus... VirusZIII is currently disinfecting them

EDIT: Virus completely removed from all partitions, but its still sometimes hassling me , but not as much. Will keep a wait and see approach.

[dougal]

Just one more question (i promise).

All seems ok as i seem to get round the freezing problem by doing the following:

Go into Early Startup and then hit Boot

Amiga boots up perfectly including all items in WB-Startup

If i dont do that, then the Amiga will freeze while loading WBSTARTUP

What does that mean? Maybe the HD needs more time to startup after reset or power-on?

[dougal]

Could the problems be related to the fact that the BATTERY is dead?