From: wind1289@med.unc.edu (Stuart Kossover)
Subject: Help with my Black Beast
Originator: wind1289@addor
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:44:17 GMT

Help.
	I have had my NeXT for a year and a half. It is a mono with 8/200
running 25MHz with 2.1. Now it seems to be running at half that speed. I
have noticed quite a few problems recently that may be linked to something
I see in the private/adm/messages referring to the boot process:
Physical memory 8 Megabytes
Available memory 7.03 Megabytes
	I don't remember old ../messages but could I have lost some
functional memory?
Here are some things that are happening:
1. When I launch an Improv file that uses PresentationBuilder,
	Presentation Builder doesn't start up automatically anymore.
2. All Apps take forever to launch
3. If I log out of /me to root and log back into /me again (not having done
	anything in root) I am no longer able to launch any application,
	from the dock or elsewhere. The App Icon will highlight but almost
	immediately reverts to its unlauched appearance. I have to turn the power
	off to get anything to work
4. I woke up this morning to find that BackSpace Analog clock was frozen
	in one position on my screen. It was 5am but the clock was frozen at 2	
	o'clock.  This is a first time event. What the  @@#$%@% is going on. I
	could not override the system with keyboard emergency power off combos.
	Nothing registered. I had to pull the plug. When I powered up,
	log on went as usual; but nothing out of the ordinary appeared in ../messages.
5. When I have MicrophonePro running a script that counts down time to
	next dial out retry (when first call is busy) and display time remaining
	to the next call on the window, the Backspace screensaver may come on as
	expected, but the analog clock moves slow and jerky and I hear my hard
	drive scratching with every jerky clock movement. It returns to normal
	when I quit MicroPhonePro.
Stuff that I usually have on the doc includes Cassandra1.5 ( which
incedently sets off the alarm at the appropriate time but
ingores the snooze setting so the rooster sounds repeatedly until I
turn it off [bug, Jiro?], BackSpace, Improv, PresentationBuilder,
MicrophonePro, PrintTester, SimonSay, Frame, and Illustrator.
	I would appreciate any insight into my problem/problems. In
medicine, we look for a unifying diagnosis. I hope that is the case here.
Do I need to find a sour memory chip? Do I need to bring the black beast
in for a tune up? Thanks to everyone who opines over this post. 
	Be well.
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