[NTLK] Weird OMP Boot Cycle & Diagnostics Menu

[William Maloney]

By the way, my other MP100 is sick, so if you could take a peek at an
earlier message "OMP Display Problem- Very very dim", I will try to
send you a little video of this weird Newton booting up.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:43 AM, William Maloney
<william.maloney.09 at cnu.edu> wrote:
> James,
>
> I more or less did almost nothing. The OMP was sitting in a box of
> mine for a few months before I came home. The batteries were dead and
> I just started it up with the power adapter. The screen does this very
> strange cycle, fills all the way up, then scrolls a grid across the
> screen. I just let it run through and either came back later or
> restarted it until the diagnostics came up. The link you gave shows
> the exact same menu, but it was all really glitchy and nothing could
> be selected.
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:28 AM, James Fraser
> <wheresthatistanbul-newtontalk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> --- On Sun, 10/21/12, William Maloney <william.maloney.09 at cnu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>I booted it up and came back to find it running a diagnostics menu. It had >several options such as RUN OS, REBOOT, SHUTDOWN, etc. Unfortunately, >these options did not work.  I have never seen this on any MP. Is this >some kind of secret menu?
>>
>> I wouldn't say "secret" so much as "little known." :)
>>
>> It sounds like you might have come across an earlier version of this:
>>
>> http://www.pda-soft.de/diagmode.html
>>
>>
>> Frank Gruendel's hardware page:
>>
>> http://www.pda-soft.de/hardware.html
>>
>> ...alludes to the Diagnostic Mode of the OMP near the very bottom of the page with a "Coming Soon!" icon right next to it (or rather, left next to it).
>>
>> Frank Gruendel being Frank Gruendel (i.e. a thorough, painstaking sort of chap, as anyone who has spent a few minutes gawping at his site will affirm), I would guess that he, at least, has seen the Diagnostic Mode you seem to have come across on your OMP and has simply lacked the time to write it up on his site.
>>
>> (Of course, since my last name is "Fraser" rather than "Gruendel," that's strictly a guess on my part.)
>>
>> Do you have a rough idea how long you were away from your OMP before you came back and saw the menu (i.e. can you reproduce what you did)?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> James Fraser
>>
>>
>>
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