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- From: sjjohnst@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Stephen Johnston)
- Subject: Amiga 500 is Dying!
- Message-ID: <Bxxo7L.5F9@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Keywords: Amiga, Floppy, Power
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:38:05 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- I have an Amiga 500 computer that is quickly dying on me. I was hoping someone
- has had similar experience with their Amiga, and perhaps knows what could be
- wrong.
-
- Occasionally, my screen will flicker, and the external drive will access, as
- if a new disk was inserted.. Sometimes, this is all that happens. Othertimes,
- the drive will start 'buzzing', and usually the internal drive will do the
- same. The computer usually crashes after a period of time. The interesting
- thing is that this will happen with no disk in either drive. It has also
- happened after a cold re-boot, so it is not a virus.
-
- Possibly related, is the external drive occasionally slows while using Messy-
- Dos, and reads/writes become impossible. It starts at full speed, and grad-
- ually slows down. This is very rare.
-
- Sometimes the computer works fine for hours and hours, sometimes it fails
- within minutes. (I use my computer for school, can't really afford to be with-
- out it...)
-
- My Amiga 500 is configured as follows:
- Amiga 500 - 1mb Agnus Chip
- - Super Denise
- - DOS 2.04
- A501 Clock/Calander Card (configured as CHIP RAM)
- Multi-Start ROM switcher
- External Commodore 3.5" drive
- Printer, Modem, Joystick, Mouse, Monitor...
-
- Any ideas??? E-mail would be welcome...
-
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- \| Stephen J. Johnston | sjjohnst@descartes.uwaterloo.ca /// |/
- /| Computer Science | 170 University Ave. West, Suite 12-198 /// |\
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- \| Stephen J. Johnston | sjjohnst@descartes.uwaterloo.ca /// |/
- /| Computer Science | 170 University Ave. West, Suite 12-198 /// |\
- \| University of Waterloo | Why follow, when /\ |\/| | / _ /\ \\\/// |/
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