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- From: borseman@telepost.no (Marcus Borseman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Amy acting strangely - help!
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 19:19:58 GMT
- Organization: TelePost Public Access
- Message-ID: <4126.6580T1219T73@telepost.no>
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- I've been having trouble with my Amiga for over a month now, and I have no
- clue whatsoever to what the cause may be. I hope someone can help me with
- this.
-
- The story goes like this:
-
- In August last year I decided to spend some cash on my A1200 and upgrade the
- processor, get a CDROM and a bigger HD, and build the whole setup into a tower
- case. I bought a tower manufactured by Micronik (no Zorro slots), an Apollo
- 1230 card w/SCSI-2 controller on board, 4MB of 60ns RAM (the Apollo didn't
- like the 70ns RAM I already had), a Quantum Trailblazer 850MB SCSI-2 HD, an
- internal HD disk drive from Power Computing, and a Sony quadspeed SCSI-2 CDROM
- drive. Due to various delays I didn't have all the parts until sometime in
- early November, only to discover that I couldn't connect the CDROM and the HD
- at the same time since the internal SCSI- connector on the Apollo was only
- designed for one device. Now, I had to return the cable to the company and
- wait for them to add another connector to it. But lady luck would have it that
- this cable was defect; meaning that I had to get another one which still
- hasn't arrived in my mailbox. Imagine my aggravation when I have to wait
- between three weeks and a month for the company to get their rear in gear and
- send me what I've ordered - each time!
-
- Now, in the meantime, while switching accelerator boards, messing w/cables
- and moving hardware around, some problems have appeared that don't seem to go
- away. Here they are:
-
- * The Apollo waits 20 seconds for SCSI-devices to power up and announce that
- they are present and ready. This is a somewhat annoying feature which I have
- to live with, but it happens time after time, both after cold starting and
- normal rebooting, that the HD isn't recognized, and the machine displays
- the old boot- screen with a disk going into the drive. When I reboot, it
- sometimes boots properly, sometimes not. There is no apparent system in
- what it does and why.
-
- * Sometimes when booting, the process stops and a get a system failure message
- saying that 'System' failed, along with a message. No apparent reason.
-
- * A patch came with the internal HD disk drive, enabling the drive to write to
- HD disks. I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but often the
- system freezes after inserting or ejecting a disk. Or, that is to say, the
- _workbench_ freezes. All other programs work fine. But needless to say I
- have to reboot, and then problem no. 1 _may_ appear. Not always, but it
- does happen frequently. Funny detail is that this prolem doesn't exist
- when I boot with no startup-sequence.
-
- * I use a PC keyboard. Sometimes I get characters like ┼░⌐«▐ instead of
- qwerty - it acts as if shift and alt are pressed at the same time.
-
- * This is the major problem which is a real pain in the ass: due to the
- way the tower is made, I have two powersupplies - the old, external one that
- came with my A1200, and the internal 200W supply of the tower. The HD, CDROM
- and diskdrive draw power from the internal supply, while the motherboard,
- Apollo card and MhZ/Led displays on the tower front draw from the old 3a
- supply. Sometimes it seems as if the old, external PSU isn't capable of
- supplying the necessary power; the MhZ/Led-panel goes black, and the
- screen becomes white/light gray before the computer resets. It's pretty much
- the same thing as if I should have turned the power off, only to switch it
- back on immediately afterwards. This is a real drag, since it just happens
- with no form of warning whatsoever - and there is no connection between this
- and what I'm doing at the moment when it happens. When it happens during
- boot it's no fun, since the system partition then must be validated
- afterwards. I can also mention that problem no. 3 often happens after such
- a power surge.
-
-
- I would be very grateful if someone could help me out here. Please be so kind
- as to send any suggestions/tips to my email address instead of posting them
- back in this newsgroup, since I don't have time to come here often. Thanks :)
-
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