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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help debugging my A2000
- Keywords: I did it myself :-(
- Message-ID: <36693@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:22:31 GMT
- References: <fineberg.720920441@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <fineberg.720920441@wuarchive.wustl.edu> fineberg@wupost.wustl.edu (Charles M. Fineberg) writes:
- > What does it mean when you have killed your amiga and it has the
- > following behaviour on power up:
- >
- > 1) Power light goes on for a little more than a second
- > 2) Power light starts going bright then dim 5 times
- > as the screen goes from light grey to darker grey
- > 3) Power light does a slightly longer bright and then an even
- > longer dim as the screen goes to black.
- > 4) Start at 2) again.
- >
- > So you wonder to yourself about now, Charlie, how did you do this?
- > The edited version of the long and sad tale is that while installing
- > some new stuff, I didn't seperate my 2nd floppy power connector from
- > my 2nd floppy by far enough and somehow a big spark flew between the
- > two...
-
- The behaviour you describe suggests that the processor is getting
- an exception very early on in the cold boot sequence. Given that the
- problem might have come from the floppy problem you describe, I'd
- start by assuming that one of the 8520's is blown, if it's not that
- it could be anything...
-
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