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- From: ohyeah@csn.tu-chemnitz.de (Rainer Schreurs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Flashing caps key
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 11:40:12 GMT
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- Chris Appleton (chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk) writes:
- > DRD> The caps key on my Amiga 500+ flashes continually on power up, and
- > DRD> nothing loads. Is this diagnostic of a common fault?
- > The flashing caps key is sometimes a diagnostic signal, if it flashes a
- > certain number of times. If I flashes continuously it's possibly a sign that
- > your keyboard is totally dead (locked permenantly). But I'd assume software
- > would load when you had a duff k/b...
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- Here is what the flashing means:
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- Flashs per second Meaning
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- 1 ROM checksum error or Controller 6570-036 defected
- 2 RAM error or Controller 6570-036 defected
- 3 Watchdog timer 555, 74LS123 or 74LS27 defected
- 4 internal keyboard error
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- cu
- Rainer
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