home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Offline 2 / NetNews Offline Volume 2.iso / news / comp / sys / amiga / hardware-part2 / 10474 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1996-08-05  |  1.4 KB
  1. Path: ix.netcom.com!news
  2. From: mjesus@ix.netcom.com (Manuel Jesus Jr. )
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: What does a YELLOW screen crash indicate?   :?(  040 fried?
  5. Date: 17 Apr 1996 04:01:58 GMT
  6. Organization: Netcom
  7. Message-ID: <4l1qfm$fh8@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
  8. References: <4kc6i8$72t@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> <4l1erd$2hr@newsserver.trl.OZ.AU>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-jc7-12.ix.netcom.com
  10. X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Apr 16 11:01:58 PM CDT 1996
  11.  
  12. In <4l1erd$2hr@newsserver.trl.OZ.AU> aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan
  13. Duncan) writes: 
  14. >
  15.  
  16. >> 
  17. >>>    yellow        ->    Processor Exception
  18. >> 
  19. >>  I occasionally get a yellow screen when myA3000/040 is left on for
  20. >> hours and I do a reboot. I know the fan on the 040 doesnt work,
  21. could
  22. >                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  23. >> this cause the yellow screen flash??? Anyone???
  24. >
  25. >Sheesh!  Why do you think the manufacturer went to the cost and effort
  26. >of installing a fan?  Because it is needed!
  27.  
  28. Yep, I'm a real knucklehead. The fan doesnt work, I got the system as
  29. part of a trade and It's got some probelms...
  30.  
  31. >Next you will be complaining about the poor quality of Motorola
  32. 68040's
  33. >because your's died.
  34. >
  35.  
  36. Does overheating cause the CPU chip to become damaged? Whenever the
  37. yellow screen comes up, I either wont use the machine or just disable
  38. the 040.
  39.  
  40.                                    Thanks, 
  41.                                           MJesus
  42.