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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:40:38 -0500
- From: Berend Ozceri <bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Help me! A4000 won't boot!
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- Hi!
-
- My five-day-old A4000 is somewhat unconscious now: It will not boot.
- Here is a summary of what happened.
-
- I left my A4000 running overnight because I was rendering an animation
- in Imagine. After about 20 hours of non-stop working, when I turned out
- the monitor, the A4000 was still working fine. I did a couple of things
- in DPaint and then I loaded ADPro. I wanted to load a 24-Bit picture but
- the memory was fragmented so it did not load. No problem. Hit the three
- keys to reset (There was no harddisk activity when I did this!)
- Wait......The harddisk led blinks.......nothing! Weird. Turn the
- computer off.Wait twenty secs. Turn it back on. The power led flashes a
- couple of times in a guruing fashion....the screen is black.,...the
- harddidk led blinks......nothing. What the hell? Reboot......the same
- thing. After seeing this, I decided to let the Amiga cool for a while.
- After two hours, I turned it on and it booted. But I had to go to class
- so I didn't do anything. I was happy that it was working again and
- turned it off. When I came back from class I turned it
- on.........nothing!!! I rebooted.....this time the power led flashed a
- couple of times...and a green screen came up (one of the diagnostic
- codes).....reboot.....a yellow-green screen......reboot.....black
- screen...........
-
- What is happening? Why did my A4000 start doing this just because I
- resetted it? I suspect that the harddisk is having a problem with spinup
- but the color-diagnostic screens may mean something else. Does anybody
- know what those colors correspond to? By the way: No, I cannot boot with
- a floppy Workbench because the boot sequence gets stuck at the first
- second of its activity....
-
- Can anyone help me? Commodore? Dave Haynie? Pleasee......I want my
- A4000 back!
-
- Thanks.
-
- (By the way: Any ideas, no matter what, (as long as they make some
- remote sense) are appreciated.)
-
-
- Berend
-