Titanium wows

Hi
A couple of weeks ago when I booted the computer up is stopped at the start screen. I typed in desktop and it booted up into a non configured screen.
I then tried to open up hard drive4 that gave an error Disc not understood has it been formatted. I shutdown the computer and tried again but the same.
I tried several times then it booted up fully. both hard drives gave the same error.
Since then on boot up if I double click on either disc it opens up the window,clicking on any folder opens it up but it is highlighted as you where
dragging it to a new destination.You have to click all buttons to release it.
Once you have done that it works fine.
If you click on the address bar at the top of the window,it will drag the window any where on the screen till you click with all buttons.
This only happens for the first button actions.The task master icon I have to open with the adjust button before I can open it with adjust.
Some times shift double clicking on a program only loads the program not opening it up say to read the help menu.
It also will not read USB sticks unless they are formatted for RiscOs error Disc not understood has it been formatted.
I have a Beagle BoardXM and that reads the USB sticks. Have loaded an older boot from 2015 with no change. The boot that is running is 5.24 updated it to 5.28 no Change
Rom 5.24 have tried soft load to 5.28 no change.Scratching my head for answers.

It also will not read USB sticks unless they are formatted for RiscOs error Disc not understood has it been formatted.

This is a consequence of fat32fs not being loaded during the boot process, i.e. either an error aborting the boot process part way through or the HardDisc4 not being visible at boot time. So it is not a separate error.

One possibility is your CMOS settings – make sure that your boot drive (:4 or :5) corresponds to the drive number set in CMOS.

I have just loaded Reporter and found a line in the report SCSI:Dismount8 following line Disc Drive not found.
I sounds like my CMOS settings are wrong. Where are the setting located and how do I change them.

Sounds like several different issues, the most concerning of which are the disc reporting not understood. It’s worth doing a verify on them, press F12 (not control+F12) and do a verify 4 and *verify 5. Look out of any errors or question marks which means retries.

Another issue seem to be the keyboard and mouse, which sound a bit dodgy, have you tried different ones?

I think Chris is right on the USB drives.

I have just loaded Reporter and found a line in the report SCSI:Dismount8 following line Disc Drive not found.
I sounds like my CMOS settings are wrong. Where are the setting located and how do I change them.

I dont think that is the cause of any of your problems. Reporter can show up stuff in the boot sequence that looks wrong but doesn’t cause any problems. You really need to become familiar with its output before you get any issues, to be able to see what is actually wrong.

Pressed F12 verify 4 and 5 both drives then ran Discknght,both drives have no errors. The key board is on a USB adapter and the mouse is wireless.
Tried different combinations one set up stopped the video output to the screen working.
Plugged both keyboard and wired mouse into the USB adapter and every thing worked.

It will now read USB flash drives as well. The adapter I have been using for about 9 months with no trouble.
I will now get a USB keyboard + new hard drives as they are small and nearly full up.
Thanks

Please remember DiscKnight only checks a small part of the disc which contains filing system information. Using the Verify command reads every part of the disc, and can show up issues with damaged sectors (on spinning rust), but also indicate if the disc system is unreliable if unproduceable faults are reported. Although some disc not understood failure only occur at boot up due to hardware initialization issues, when the disc is recognised no further problems are observed.

Is there anyway around Solid HD not being able to be read :-(

The Titanium can be booted from USB SCSI or SDFS.

I have, in the past, had Titanium woes that sound similar.

With OS5.24, and the earlier part of OS5.27, it was possible for the Titanium not to have found one of its SSDs on start up. IIRC an update to the SATADriver module fixed that. I now run with OS5.28 flashed with OS5.29 dev builds softloaded. That all works just fine.

Also in the past I have had USB devices that could totally stop the boot at a very unhelpful black screen. I have not seen this recently so either it got fixed, or I got lucky or I have lost the offending device.

Diagnostics to see what is, and what is not, present :-

*SATAdevices
Ctl Prt PMP  Type   Description                                Capacity
  0   0   0  ATA    Crucial_CT240M500SSD1                      224 Gbytes
  0   0   1  ATA    SanDisk SD8SBAT256G1122                    238 Gbytes
  0   0   2  ATA    SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series                     119 Gbytes
  0   0   3  ATAPI  TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-208FB
  0   0  15  Multiplier
*
*USBDevices
No. Bus Dev Class Description
  1   1   0  9/ 0 Synopsys XHCI root hub
  2   1   1  9/ 0 SMSC USB 2.0 4-Port Hub
  3   1   2  9/ 0 Genesys Logic USB2.0 Hub
  4   1   3  0/ 0 SanDisk Ultra
  5   2   0  9/ 0 Synopsys XHCI root hub
  6   2   1  9/ 0 SMSC USB 2.0 4-Port Hub
  7   2   2  0/ 0 SMI Corporation USB DISK
  8   2   3  0/ 0 SanDisk Cruzer Glide
*
*SDIOdevices
Bus Slt  RCA Fun  Description        Capacity     Vendor    Product Rev Date
  0   0  E624  0  SDXC card           119 Gbytes  SanDisk   SL128   8.0 2016-03
*