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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!copes
- From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: HELP!! A3000 in Coma!
- Message-ID: <copes.715933434@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep7.180352.42837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1992Sep7.190302.42840@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:23:54 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep7.180352.42837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >> HELP!!!!! My A3000 just went into a major coma. I had just gotten
- >> off of the VAX at my university using Atalk III and had started
- >> a game o fmisssile command when WHAMO out she goes like a system
- >> crash or something so i try to warm reboot and no response. Next
- >> i try a cold reboot and all i get is the power light undulating
- >> from bright to not so bright and back, the harddrive light doesn't
- >> make an appearance AT ALL. Does anyone have a clue as to how I
- >> might revive my little A3000. What could have gone wrong. She
- >> seemed like such a quiet and happy computer. Any help would
- >> be appreciated.
- >>
- >> By the way, its a 16Mhz A3000 with a 52meg Quantum which used to
- >> run 2.04 but doesn't have the ROMs installed...If this would help
- >> at all.
- >> -Distressed
- >OK, this is REALLY weird. I just got home from posting this
- >message up here(i had to go to the comp center) and i pulled
- >my computer out a few inches and thought I try to boot her up
- >one last time tonight just for posterity sake and Lo and Behold
- >She BOOTED. She's back. BUT will this happen again?? Any
- >suggestions as to what was happening??? Thanks in advance
-
- > -Only a little distressed now.
-
- Sounds like your power cable is not very tight. Check it, and make sure that
- all peripheral cables are SCREWED in.
-
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