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- From: eabu2072@arcturus.oac.uci.edu (Kilroy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: a3000 boot prob
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 16:35:41 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Message-ID: <4f5bkt$qc7@news.service.uci.edu>
- References: <4f59jp$p8s@news.service.uci.edu>
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- In article <4f59jp$p8s@news.service.uci.edu>,
- Kilroy <eabu2072@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
- >get a grey screen...what does that mean???
-
-
- ok..sorry about that last post...my server was going down in 40 secs, and
- wanted the thing posted..little did i know i could immediately call back,
- and use another server...heh..
-
- anyway...here goes...
-
- i have a a3000...i think it has 1.3 roms, and softkicks to 2.1...ok...my
- brother was doing some work in pagestream 3.0, and then it just locked,
- and then attempted a reboot....i was not in the vicinity(geese,I wasnt in
- the county)...then it came up with nothing...not even the 1.3 screen i
- normally get before it reboots to 2.1
-
- I sometimes get a black(midnight blue actually) screen, or sometimes i
- get a greyish white screen....i hear the HD doing something, but no light
- goes on..., and the a: drive(Sorry,i work on a few different systems)
- light just stays lit as if it was trying to find something...or maybe, cant
- acknowledge that it should boot from HD...ok...
-
- so i tried to use a system disk(2.1) to boot into the system...no cigar(I
- lknow i shoulduse 1.3 boot disk, BUT I dont have one!!!!(ok..found a 1.2
- boot disk, and it does not work either
-
- I tried some autobooting games, even some old moldy ones from my a500
- days...again...no cigar...(Mean 18 :Ultimate golf circa 1986)
-
- I get a nasty feeling that for some reason my rom got zapped...any help???
-
- Also, i read on time that the boot screen, if it goes to one color it
- means something(i.e green screen means mem probs...)..but i cant seem to
- find it again in my manuals for i think this grey screen might mean something
-
- thats all...
-
- if anyone can help me i would appreciate it..thanks...
- sys:
-
- a3000...quantum 150mb 12 mb ram...thats all that would matter...
-
- Alfredo
-
- thanks again
-
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- Alfredo Cartagena Kilroy
- Liquid Shadow Factory Delta Sigma Phi
- (714) 448-9682 Irvine Colony, '91
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