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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help With A1000
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 16:54:32 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4i6r3o$ac2@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <1007.6638T1368T1107@a.crl.com> <4hk6jn$kqi@mars.darmstadt.gmd.de>
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- volz@darmstadt.gmd.de (Marc Volz) writes:
-
- >In article <1007.6638T1368T1107@a.crl.com>,
- > kennyh@a.crl.com (Kenny Hydock) writes:
- >>From the computer of Kenny Hydock:
- >>
- >>Someone gave me a broken A1000. I was wondering if I might get some help on
- >>resurrecting it.
-
- >>Once the kickstart disk is inserted it
- >>begins reading and then locks up with a white screen. Trying a reset only
- >>causes the power light to flash and no reading the disk.
-
- >The power light blinking encodes some basic diagnostic.
-
- Nope.
-
- >Unfortunately, I do not know the code.
-
- Not necessary to know what isn't there :)
-
- The only code is in the colors. Cycling through to a _white_ screen (as opposed to
- a gray or colored screen) means that the whole initialization went ok and the CPU
- stopped at that point. This is, in most cases, because some peripheral (for example
- a broken CIA) is triggering an interrupt which cannot be cleared. The CPU then loops
- just in the interrupt code. If you wait a very long time you will see that the
- main program continues very very slowly.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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