Re: slow startup with SRAM card

darren@mailserver.aixssc.uk.ibm.com
Wed, 10 Apr 96 9:38:02 BST

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>> >an appointment alarm sounds, it goes, beeeeeeeeeeep, pause,
>> >then normal beep, beep..
>>
>> I noticed this too. (Well, I didn't wanna say anything in case I
>> was imagining it all!) But how can a memory card effect an alarm
>> (we're talking seriously dodgy code here).
>
>Of course you both could be imagining it!! ;)
>
>I was just wondering if the batteries in the SRAM card itself were
>fresh. That maybe if they were low power could be siphoned off of the
>OGO. Does it do this when the unit is powered on, or only when it is
>powered down and alarms? If so you may want to try toggling the
>"touch screen to turn on" option to see if it makes a difference. This
>might help narrow it to a software or power-drain problem.
> The other thing that I can thin of is that under certain
>circumstances the software was designed to "wake up" a peripheral or
>such at a scheduled time.

Well, the card (and batteries) are fairly new, and it's been doing the
beeeeeeeeeep, blip-blip-blip since I put it in. Tonight I'll double-check
by testing the alarm without the card.

Touch screen to turn on is off (I took pity on my batteries).
I shall do some research!

Cheers,
daZZa (Darren Marsland, BOS Group Team Leader, AIXSSC, IBM UK)
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