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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A500 Problem
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 13:38:09 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4hk4g1$3df@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <4hj715$h88@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
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-
- In <4hj715$h88@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> LEHAM1
- <LEHAM1@STUDENT.MONASH.EDU.AU> writes:
- >
- >Can anybody solve my A500 problem?
- >
- >Firstly, I have an A500 with a GVP series II controller, no
- accelerator,
- >5MB on the GVP board, a Guru ROM, and a 1 GB Quantum Fireball in the
- GVP.
- >
- >As of recently, my computer runs for about 5 minutes (more or less),
- then
- >it will crash. Trying to reset may cause horizontal purple lines on
- the
- >screen, or just a purple screen, or a black screen. Once I had
- vertical
- >green bars. Sometimes the computer will guru after a few minutes of
- use,
- >and after a few more minutes will crash as dexcribed above. Once the
- >computer has crashed, no amount of resetting will fix it, and I have
- to
- >turn it off for a few minutes.
- >
- >Is this possibly a virus (I don't think so)
- >Could it be a blown CIA or other "cheap" thing
- >Could it be faulty RAM chips (again, I don't think so)
- >Could it be my hard drive (I really don't think so)
- >Could it be my GVP controller (I doubt it, but I recently disconnected
- my
- >GVP board, and booted Superfrog, left it running for 30 minutes, and
- my
- >machine didn't crash)
- >
- >The puzzling thing is that my computer works PERFECTLY fine for a few
- >minutes before crashing.
- >
- >Also, the crashes seem not to be triggered by anything, but just
- happen
- >whenever they feel like it, ie during eagle/hippoplayer, simcity,
- >graphics programs, anything really. I haven't played games for a
- while,
- >so I don't know if it would happen with them.
- >
- >
- >Any suggestions, email me at:
- >
- >LEHAM1@phs01.cc.monash.edu.au
- >
- >Leo Hamulczyk
- >
-
- Leo,
-
- Disclaimer : I am not an expert at all but I will share my experience
- with you.
-
- I have an A500 with a Supra Turbo28, Fasttrak ram/scsi 4mb ram/540mb
- hd. I have the 1mb Agnus (done by my local Amiga dealer). I also have
- a Videomaster.
-
- My computer would work fine most of the time but more and more became
- subject to odd crashes. I ended up fixing it by getting a heavy-duty
- power supply. It seems my original supply would work sometimes but not
- all of the time. Hopefully this will help you.
-
- Mark
-