| From: | Arthur Perkins |
| Date: | 23 Jun 2001 at 15:56:10 |
| Subject: | Re: Dead,Dying Amiga A2000 in need of help!! |
I do plan to upgrade the 040 to a 060 unless Amiga Inc. offers a trade-in
program, but until then I'm going to try to bring the machine up by
switching the power switch on & off until it starts up and leave it on
until I can send it out for repair.
Arthur
At 11:16 PM 06/22/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>arthur perkins said,
>
> > When it starts booting up, the green power light comes
> > on but the yellow hd light does not nor do either of
> > the floppy lights. Every now and then after it's been
> > shut off for awhile and I turn it on, the computer
> > will boot.
>
> > Here's what's in the machine: Picasso IV graphics
> > card,
> > PP&O 68040 accelerator card with 32 megs of ram,
>
>I had a similar problem with my A2000, that disappeared when I replaced
>the PP&S 040 card with an 060. It appeared to be a power problem, the
>system drew too much power on cold startup. The only way to get it to
>boot was to repeatedly switch off and on again until it started. Then I
>didn't turn it off again.
>
>
>Cheers
>
>Neil
>--
>Neil Bothwick - New Media Editor, Amiga Active Magazine
>
>And then Adam said, "What's a headache?
>
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