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- From: laurie@lknight.demon.co.uk (Laurie Knight)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 troubles
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 21:10:49 GMT
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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.
-
- This sounds like a Chip memory problem to me...
- Try swapping your Chip mem out with some other if you can.
-
- Laurie
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