@Paul et al,

Although my amigaXE has been running since reformatting/reinstalling the system drive, I decided to run some additional tests (in case something else caused the HD problem). Memtester showed I had a problem with my memory. I did some additional checking on Intuitionbase to find that the two sticks of Kingston 256 MB registered RAM have problems when installed in both DIMM slots. I am now in the market for a single 512 MB registered SDRAM that is compatible with my A1XE.

Memoryx.net has SDRAM advertised as being made especially for the Teron PX Articia S chipset selling for around $59. Is this a good deal, being that I've seen other "compatible" memory going for $124?

-The Phantom "?"

@Paul

I left the partition as SFS/0. With that being said, I have been advised on other amiga forums to go with FFS2 since it apparently is easier to fix if something goes wrong.

-The Phantom "?"

@Rigo et al.,

I booted from the install CD. Before running memtester, I decided to run Partition Wizard. My system partition had an error, trying to write two things to the same block. I reformatted the disk and installed OS4.1. I am now enjoying OS4.1, typing this from OWB 3.1.

Thanks for all the help,

The Phantom "?"

@moderator

Thank you for letting me know about the crashlog site. I'll post the problem there. I hope to find the solution to the problem soon. Perhaps I need to set up my System: partition in FFS2 rather than SFS?

edit: I just noticed the log is already there. Thanks.

-The Phantom "?"

@Cyborg

It is indeed a clean install without anything else installed (no games, no apps, or anything but AmigaOS4.1 on the entire hard disk). It did not crash when booting from the AmigaOS4.1 CD. The only bug I noticed from the CDROM is when I was partitioning the hard drive. I wanted to try the autopartition feature, but it failed giving a message that the file did not exist. The CDROM did not have a template for autopartitioning the hard drive (I manually searched everywhere on the CDROM for the file, but could not find it.); therefore, I partitioned the hard drive by myself according to the guidelines set in the AmigaOS4.1 manual.

My AmigaOneXE does not crash when opening the RAM disk, nor when opening my Work: partition. It only crashes when opening my System: partition (DH0:) and any drawers within the partition. I have the System: partition formatted as SFS/0 with 512 being the block size. My Work: partition (DH1:) is formatted as JXFS with 512 being the block size. I reply to Snuffy, I do not know what it is waiting for, or if it has something to do with my System: partition woes. My SWAP is a SWAP partition also set according to the appropriate block size (being that I am typing on my in-laws pc over100 miles from my AmigaOne XE, I do not remember the block size. I just remember setting it exactly according to the manual).

My battery is new. My Kingston registered memory has never given me problems before now. I have never overclocked my 800mhz CPU, though I guess it is possible to overheat. It would seem odd that it would just now be overheating after three years of use. My graphics card is a Radeon 7000, but I did not choose to have transparency turned on, choosing rather the OS4.0 theme until I can afford a Radeon 9250.

If this is not enough info to solve the problem, then I'll try reformatting the partitions and reinstalling OS4.1.

The Phantom "?"

@TSK

I just clean installed OS4.1. The most noticable, annoying, and debilitating bug in OS4.1 is opening windows. Opening windows brings up the Grim Reaper with a DSI exception. Being that no one has reported this bug before, I am assuming that my situation is unique. I would like to find out what is wrong and how to fix the problem so I may actually use OS4.1. Here is the Workbench crash log...

*edit*
Please all, refrain from posting crashlogs to the forums.
There is a perfectly fine to way to link to the crashlog site of os4depot.net even if the program does not exist there originally. I believe orgin won't mind as long as it's an OS4 based program.

Better than messing up the forums anyway
*edit*

@tlm

Just one more suggestion. Two weeks ago, I performed a home fix for my USB on my AmigaOne. When I got everything together and tried to boot up the machine, the HD light lit up, but the light quit after a few seconds, and I did not have anything show up on screen. I immediately thought that I had ruined my mother board with the fix; however, I retraced my steps, checking the battery, checking my ATA cabling, checking USB cabling, checking all other miscellaneous LED cabling, and finally checking the seating of my PCI cards. The culprit, it turns out, was the seating of my graphics card. Taking it out and reseating it solved the problem. I now have a fully functional AmigaOne... well apart from DMA, which I decided not to bother.

I hope you get your AmigaOne up and running again.

The Phantom "?"

@agafaster

I purchased a Koutech 5 port USB 2.0 PCI card. The AmigaOne at the UBoot level does not recognize it. AmigaOS4 does not recognize it. I would guess that either USB 2.0 devices have no support at the firmware or software levels, or the chipset on the Koutech PCI card is not supported (or both).

-The Phantom Interrogative