robert@csuf3b.UUCP (Robert Maltas) (05/07/89)
Every so often, when I do the 3-fingered reset on my A2000, the computer's
power light blinks on and off continuously, in an endless loop. The only
way to get out of this situation is to shut down the system, and then restart
her again. Perhaps many would consider this minor, but when you have 2 drives,
5 megs of ram and a 40 meg autobooting hard-drive in there, the on/off
routine isn't so hot. This happened even before I added all the extra
hardware. This never happens with certain software; with other software,
it happens intermittently.
Any possible causes? (Never happened on my A1000).
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\\/// robertm@csufres.csufresno.edurobert@csuf3b.UUCP (Robert Maltas) (05/09/89)
Thanks Andy, but the setpatch is the first thing executed in my startup-
sequence. I ran a few games today, and here's what happened:
Arkanoid-----it gave me a guru message #0000000B.00C01570
but it did get me out of that reset loop, displaying
an SCA virus message.
Deep Space---As soon as I did the 3 finger pinch, my
hard drives spun for a split of a second,
then the two disk-drive lights in the Amiga
didn't light up at all-----TOTAL freeze out.
Even when I removed that disk from df0: and
did the 3-finger pinch/left mouse button, same symptoms occurred.
When I shut down the system and restarted her with Deep Space
in df0:, it then booted ok. As soon as I played a game, I rebooted
the system with the same disk in df0: and the total freezeout
occurred again.
When I bought the Amiga in March of 87 and noticed this problem, I took
it to an authorized Commodore repair center but they couldn't reproduce
the same results------perhaps because they loaded normal utility programs
or demos on it. This problem only seems to crop up with commercial video
games.
Oh please! Don't let me be doomed not to play video games on this wonderful
machine.
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\\/// robertm@csufres.csufresno.edurobert@csuf3b.UUCP (Robert Maltas) (05/09/89)
A few extra details I forgot to mention: For the Deep Space diskette,
when I did the 3-button pinch, the power light kept blinking but hard-drive
didn't even light up-----even when I did repeated resets/left-mouse button
presses....etc. Though every time I did the reset, I noticed a horizontal
glitch in the screen.
There are a few other disks that create this same problem.
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