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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 w/Blizzard030 acting strange
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 23:15:35 GMT
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- On 08-Feb-96 11:17:25, Richard Jacobsen
- <richard_jacobsen@oppland_gateway.dagningen.no> wrote:
- >Hi all!!
- >I have a very strange problem with my 1200 with 030 Accelerator (no fpu)
- >The machine sometimes hangs without any Guru at all, and othertimes it
- >hangs and all i see is this "spritegibberish" all over the screen. At
- >first I thought it maybe was a CIA chip that was damaged, but then
- >suddently my startup-sequence totally left my harddisk and I couldn┤t
- >get it back even with undelete.. Not a trace was left of it. Later I
- >found out that my DF0: was unable to read disks although PS0: works!!!
- >Anybody seen anything like this before?? I guess I have to get my
- >machine fixed, but I wondered if anybody of you guys maybe new of
- >something like this.. My Amiga has been like this since the new year
- >started so I┤m starting to be impation...:-(
- >Anyway; replies here or by email are welcomed!
- >TIA.
-
- Another post mentioned general hardware trouble, but I'd be suspicious of a
- more malignant problem with the symptoms you described. I suspect that you've
- caught a virus on your computer.
-
- And depending on what virus it is, you may not be able to scan for it with
- avirus checker running from the hard drive; the virus runs first and stops the
- checker from doing its job.
-
- What you'll need is a good virus checker running on a floppy, write
- protected, to boot from.
-
- It could be just a hardware problem, but that isn't too likely to make the
- harddrive's startup-sequence disappear unless you were changing it when it
- crashed.
-
- <tsb> *Starfire*
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