Robert_No-doubt_Gregory@cup.portal.com (01/21/90)
Has anyone seem a problem similar to mine? The have an A2000 (V4.1) with a Hardframe, Seagate 277N, 8UP w/ 2meg, and Supra internal 2400 modem. All of a sudden the machine gurus without any apparent cause. Subsequent reboots guru consistantly in the middle of the startup sequence. Eventually (now) it no longer boots of the harddisk at all. Its does work fairly well from floppies. By messing around with it, it looks like it is having problems with anything in the expansion slots; it kinda of knows they are there but it kinda doesn't. For example the 8up board shoes up if I do an 'avail' command but if I run the Microbotics memory test is says 'no expansion devices' present (normally it will detect bothe the memory and the hard disk). Another example, if I try to mount a hard disk partition, it says 'dh0 already mounted', but I see no sign of it if I do the 'info' command. I don't see how this can be anything but a hardware failure somewhere in the Amiga itself.
Robert_No-doubt_Gregory@cup.portal.com (01/21/90)
(To continue) If anyone has in ideas on some cheap and/or easy things
I could try before hauling my 2000 down to the dealer for the $70/hr
workover, I would apreciate it.
Robert Gregoryammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml) (01/25/90)
In article <26166@cup.portal.com> Robert_No-doubt_Gregory@cup.portal.com writes: > >(To continue) If anyone has in ideas on some cheap and/or easy things >I could try before hauling my 2000 down to the dealer for the $70/hr >workover, I would apreciate it. > > Robert Gregory Robert: I had similar problems when I installed my 2620 board with my 2-meg ram board and my ASDG serial board. It did very similar things, the Guruing in the middle of boot up and such. What I finally did to solve my problem was let the thing 'warm up' for a while before I let it boot. About 5 minutes should do it. This worked for me as well as another friend with similar problems. It appears that the buss 'needs to warm up' and come to a stable state before it trys to talk to any boards, (due to timing problems, noise, etc). I know this sounds crazy, I thought so too, but it worked for me. Give it a try, and let me and others know. Thanks, Mike... ============================================================================= Mike Kraml - Manager-Separations MECHANIZATION - SWBT - (The Techies) UUCP: {uunet, bellcore, texbell}...!swbatl!slims!ammrk =============================================================================