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Subject: HELP!!! - Dead floppy drives on A3000
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From: Jason Hopkins <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:46:45 -0800
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I have an A3000 desktop which I have been trying to upgrade with an
A3640 (v. 3.1).  On that issue, I seem to have a heat problem because I
still get SCSI checksum errors with my upgraded RAMSEY-07 and DMAC-04.
I still have an old BUSTER-07 which I will be upgrading to -11.  I will
be putting in fans to cool things down inside.
Anyway, during all this, I blew my floppies - probably while plugging in
my Power Computing HD drive with the power on.  I have put 2 new 8520
CIA's in there but the floppies are still dead - they won't even spin
when I insert a disk.  The light on the internal is always on (bad
sign..)  except for rare times before I insert a floppy immediately
after power on.  Do I need a new Gary chip?  Should I get the Adv. Amiga
Analyzer (not cheap and software is floppy based which makes
installation tricky)?  Could other parts be bad?  I appreciate any and
all help...Thanks.
By the way, does anyone know how to get the giant heat sink off my
A3640's 040 chip w/o messing up 040?; it is glued on tight with that
heat sink compound and is too big to fit under drive platform.
Thanks for reading my looong cry for help!  Please resond by EMAIL and
POST if possible.

Jason Hopkins
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