Help! FBlit, Startup-Sequence, Guru's & more (long)

[davideo]

I have a BoingBag startup-sequence something or other, but am unsure if it gets loaded or not. Does the command SetPatch or another command call upon that script to load? In both user-startup and startup-sequence, I do not see a pointer at all to that Startup-Sequence_OS3.9_BB1 (or whatever its called). After installing both Boing Bags, was I supposed to rename the one BoingBag SS file to simply 'Startup-sequence'? In the Toolbar, my Workbench version does have a copyright of 2002 on it AND is version 45.3. KickStart is 3.1 45.57 - so that indicates to me that the Boing Bags have been successfully implemented, right?

Your boingbag startups are backups of your original Startup-Sequence. The file called Startup-Sequence is the one that is run when you start you Amiga up. The others are now redundant but are kept in case you need to roll back your system to its original state. I.E. the one that ends in 1 is the original startup-sequence prior to boing bag one being applied, etc

Dave G   8-)

[davideo]

The User-Startup is just that. It's were you can setup your own Assigns, additions to paths etc.

If this file doesn't exist your Amiga will still load up and run. A check is made for it before it is called. And yes the normal place for this to be called from is just before the LoadWB in the Startup-Sequence file.

Some software that you install will need assigns or paths setting up to run properly, i.e. DPAINTIV: etc. Without these assigns the program won't run. What should happen is that when you install software any assigns that it needs are normally added to the User-Startup.

If you have an error in these files - depending on what the error is - you will get a message shown on the screen at startup.

I hope this is making sense  :-?

Dave G  8-)

[davideo]

I do know that YAM would bring up a dialog box from time to time (it was not consistent) that would say: "please insert volume YAM" or something similar. I "think" I thwarted that with the insertion of an assign in my user-startup.

This sounds like what we've been talking about - a missing assign. Sometimes an error in a path statement can cause similair problems.

Does the crashes and lockups happen after a certain amount of time that you've been on the Amiga? Sometimes heat buildup and/or low power can cause problems. So it may not all be software related.....

Dave G  8-)

[davideo]

If the card is starting to act up, would that account for the random crashes? And don't get me wrong - it's not as if my A1200 crashes all the time or every time I use it. Guess it happens mostly on heavy resource type software.

Sorry I didn't mean to suggest it was - only that it could be one answer to your crashes  ;-)

If it's heavy resource programs - have you thought about testing the board with some other Ram?

Dave G  8-)

[davideo]

Frank,

You're welcome and good luck with the problems.

Dave G  8-)