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- From: rmbyers@bfield.uucp (Randy Byers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: System Crash - Red Screen, Flashing Power Light - What to do?
- Message-ID: <rmbyers.0dli@bfield.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:27:26 EST
- Organization: Bakers Field BBS
- Lines: 38
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- I'm running a BBS here, and I've been getting system crashes several times a
- day for the last couple of days.... not nice....
-
- Here's the problem... the system crashes, the screen goes bright red, and the
- power LED flashes. I hit Ctrl Amiga Amiga to reboot, and I then get the GURU
- (black screen, red box) screen.
-
- I'm running on a 2000 with version 6.something of the motherboard, 1 meg Agnus
- and a GVP 22mzh 68030 combo board with 5megs of 32bit FAST RAM. I have the
- 2.04 ROMS and the 2.1 software.
-
- I went through a text file that a user uploaded to me. It said the
- following...
-
- Red screen at boot - bad ROM checksum... I never get a red screen at boot, so I
- will ignore this...
-
- Red screen, power LED blinks 9 short 1 long continuously - yes, I think this is
- it. Reason: bad RAM with open.
-
- What does this mean?? It seems to happen only occasionally.. I ran several RAM
- testing utilities a couple of days ago, but they couldn't find anything wrong.
-
- I talked to one of the service people at a local dealer a couple of days ago,
- (before the user uploaded the file) but he wasn't very helpful - he didn't know
- what a red screen meant...
-
- Is it the RAM on the motherboard? Or the RAM on the GVP board? I have three
- hard drives in my system, and the GVP card, and a GVP IO Extender board...
- could I be sucking too much power from the power supply? Or could the system
- be heating up? Or is it just bad RAM?
-
- Randy
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