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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 flicker
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:10:47 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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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.
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- : My problem is that the screen flickers when the CPU works hard,
- : the harder the CPU works, the worse it flickers.
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- : 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.
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- : The flickering almost goes away when I remove my accelerator card.
-
- : Can ANYONE help??????
-
- Off hand, I would say get a more powerful power supply, either that or try
- increasing the value of the value of the capacitor in the fix.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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