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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 flicker
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 14:22:30 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Per Tore ╪verland (pertore@deko.no) wrote:
- : I have an A1200 with internally mounted 3,5" HDD (250 MB Seagate)
- : and an 68EC030 accellerator board with 4MB of ram.
-
- : My problem is that the screen flickers when the CPU works hard,
- : the harder the CPU works, the worse it flickers.
-
- : This is similar to the flicker problem on early A1200's, mine
- : is an early rev. I have contacted Commodore about the problem,
- : and the guy at CBM mailed me a solution to the problem.
-
- : The trouble is that the "solution" doesn't work.
- : It concisted of soldering a capacitor from one place to another,
- : but that was already done by CBM.
-
- : The flickering almost goes away when I remove my accelerator card.
-
- I never had a 1200 myself, but this ounds like you need a heavier power
- supply. When you remove the cpu card there's less power needed. With the
- card in the 1200 the power needs are just 'on the edge'. You're lucky that
- it's just your screen taht flickers, a friend of mine got random crashes
- with his cpu card until he bought a new power supply.
-
- Good luck!
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-