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- From: Jkay@ragtime.vnet.net (John Kelly)
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- Subject: Re: What does a YELLOW screen crash indicate? :?(
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 17:16:45 GMT
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- al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein) writes:
-
- > I was <right-Amiga><M> toggling between Phasar and WW and my screen turned
- > a bright yellow and I had to reboot.
- >
- > What does that color indicate? When you click on the Phasar screen, it
- > flashes yellow (the complement of the usual purple default screen).
-
- If a program *crashes* with a yellow screen, it normally just indicates
- a particularly co-incidental memory corruption. Just a program stepping
- on another program's RAM ...
-
- If you BOOT to a yellow screen, you are possibly in serious trouble, since
- either:
-
- 1> Your A3000's daughtercard is loose (not too bad)
-
- 2> you have a serious hardware failure, like a blown trace, or dead
- component, or major chip death.
-
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