megabyte@chinet.chi.il.us (Dr. Megabyte) (10/22/90)
I recently acquired a Phoenix CPS-500 power supply as a replacement for my stock power supply for my Amiga 500. I boughtit used and it is acting very, very, vert strangly. Here iswhat is does: When I connect it to my Amiga 500, and turn on the power, things look right as the Amiga 500 powers on and the screens displays the icon asking me to insert my workbench diskette. When I do so, the disk begins to boot, but then, after a bit of disk spinning, the screen goes blank and either, a)nothing further happens, but the drive light stays on, b) I get a software guru meditation error, or c) It looks like it might be booting, but it have garbage all over the screen and then I get the software guru meditation error. Does anyone have any idea as to what may be wrong? It seems to me that the Amiga either should or shouldn't be getting the right power and voltage, but it looks like it does until begins to boot? Can anyone give me any help with this? Would it be worth it to have phoenix repair the unit? Any help would be appreciated. -- Mark E. Sunderlin: IRS Technocrat in Stephens City, VA aka Dr. Megabyte: megabyte@chinet.chi.il.us (703) TOY-DUDE "It is pointless to remember, it is better to forget. No one will believe you. You will have spoken a heresy! You will be outcast!"