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Falcon030 Owner's Manual
No Desktop
I f the Power LED comes on, the screen brightens, but the desktop does not display,
you may have a bad desk accessory file i n your startup disk or folder.
To bypass the desk accessory, warm boot the system ( i .e . , press [ Control] [ Al t ]
[ Delete ) ) then hold down [Contro l ] for a few seconds after the Atari logo appears
on the screen.
The system warm boots, but bypasses the software (e.g., Auto folder, desk
accessories etc . ) Di sable the fi les that are suspect, then try starting up the system
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Software P robl ems
I f you have problems with an app lication, i t may be that the software contains
imperfections ( bugs). Try clearing the memory by cold booting your system
( pressing [ Control ] , [ Alt], [ Right Shift ] , [ Delete D. Reopen the appl ication. If this
helps, i t may mean the application experienced a momentary fai lure.
If you stil l experience problems, make a new working copy of the appl ication from
the original appl ication disk onto a newl y formatted floppy disk. Try runni ng the
appl ication from the new copy.
If you are running the application from a hard disk, remove the questionable fi le
from the hard disk and copy i t again from the original application disk back onto
the hard disk. If this works, the problem is probably w ith the original working copy
of the appl ication fi le. If none of your disks work properly, you may need to replace
your original appl ication disk.
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Troubleshooting and Mai ntenance
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