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- From: jgolds@math.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey Golds)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Amiga 3000 troubles
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 00:34:22 -0500
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
- Message-ID: <4f6p8u$7gi@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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-
- Hi, folks.
-
- Last summer my Amiga and modem were damaged during an electrical storm.
- I got the modem fixed (it was on warranty thank goodness) but my Amiga
- is still crippled. Everything seems to work ok except for the graphics.
- Here are some descriptions of what is wrong:
-
- 1) When I resize a window, the edges of the window get
- trashed and leave lots of extra lines around
-
- 2) When text is scrollin on the screen, extra dots appear
- or something dots disappear. This can make reading text
- difficult
-
- 3) During hard drive access, the graphics troubles seem to
- increase in the form of flickering screens etc. but the
- hard drives work properly as far as I can tell
-
- All of the problems seem to be related to the graphics, which hints
- to me that my graphics chip is damaged. The CPU does not seem to be
- the culprit, as I do not get unexpected system errors, and I have
- run some benchmarks with no troubles.
-
- Can someone out there help me identify the trouble and recommend
- how to fix it? Perhaps someone has some diagnostic software I
- could run?
-
- Also, if this is something I can fix (I have taken the machine apart
- several times... once to install 8 megs of ZIPs and a couple of times
- to clean the machine and check that all of the chips were seated
- properly), can someone direct me to a mail-order store that carries
- the part that I need?
-
- Thanks for your time.
-
- Jeff
- jgolds@math.ohio-state.edu
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