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- From: Slite@freenet.hut.fi (Sami Leino)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A2000 Boots only if there is no keyboard plugged in.
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 08:47:05 GMT
- Organization: FAK
- Message-ID: <4hos69$r7d@idefix.eunet.fi>
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- <Pine.A32.3.91.960305093041.24527B-100000@rpool4.rus.uni-stuttgart.d
- e>, etk11485@rpool4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de says...
- >
- >
- >
- >On 4 Mar 1996, Sami Leino wrote:
- >
- >> The problem is like this: When I boot the machine when no
- keyboard is plugged
- >> in, it works fine. When I plug the keyboard in (a500 keyboard,
- which is
- >> modified to work with A2000), the screen is black and the machine
- does not
- >> boot. The machine has worked before with A500 keyboard, so that
- can not be the
- >> problem. Do anyone have a clue about this?
- >
- >Test the reset-signal of your keyboard. If the clock-line stays at
- 0V
- >all the time, your A2000 thinks you hold down the
- reset-combination on
- >the keyboard all the time. This results in not booting at all.
- Since your
- >A2000 boots
- >normally with no keyboard pluged in, the problem is in this
- modified
- >A500 keyboard!
- >You can test out this behavior on an Amiga with an functional
- keyboard.
- >
- >- Joerg
-
-
-
-
-
- I have now tested the machine with two different keyboards, and
- both did not work with A2000. I tested the other in A500, and it
- worked just fine. I think the problem might be in the A2000 itself.
-
- Sami Leino, Slite@freenet.hut.fi
-
-