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- From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (A Frank Swilling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Help me! A4000 Problem!
- Message-ID: <69873@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:35:35 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <sf2dUlK00WBO84il5h@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- >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.
-
- >Berend
-
- Bad news, Berend. This is exactly what happened to my first unit,
- fortunately after only two days. When I returned it to the dealer,
- their tech guy said the yellow-green screen indicates memory failure,
- though he wasn't sure whether it was Chip memory or Fast memory
- that was involved. They were going to pull the 2 meg memory and
- replace it at first, but they decided instead to just replace that
- unit with a new one and ship that one back to Commodore as DOA.
-
- Take yours back to your dealer pronto, unless you've already
- registered it with Commodore for Gold Service. If so, call them
- right away.
-
- Frank
- Minotaur@cup.portal.com
-