erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) (08/26/88)
[ Eat THIS, lousy line ea.... I _just_ got my Amiga back from the shop yesterday, when I noticed a strange quirk: every time the machine wants to do a reboot ( Ctrl A-A or GURU), the cold start proceedure is performed (music, blinking light, and the Kickstart hand). I sent it to the shop, when I improperly applied a Daughter card PAL upgrade ( A word to the wise: ALWAYS use a temperature controlled, grounded soldering station). I sent the busted machine to SPIRIT, from whom I purchased a memory card and the PAL upgrade. They were very helpful and generous; I paid shipping both ways ($30) and for parts (two other PALs on the daughter card - $20) and that was all. The repair took 3 months because they could not get a PAL from D5 associates, and finally got them from Commodore. However, now, when I try to reset the machine, it asks me for a Kickstart disk. The machine performs flawlessly (I have _no_ expansion devices on it right now, for testing purposes), but having to reinsert the Kickstart disk frequently is a bother (normally I do it about once a month) Does anyone have any hints or tips? The PALs have been replaced (locations J, K, L and N), and they are well grounded. BTW, please reply via E-mail. I have been on vacation for 3 weeks and have managed to cut the entire News backlog to 500 comp.sys.amiga articles. It might take me a week to catch up. Thanks in advance, -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in A.C.T | ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 4320 Tuller Road | ## Dublin OH 43017-9502 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (08/30/88)
It's possible your KS disk is munged. On ctrl-ah-ah, the boot rom checksums WCS memory. If the checksum is incorrect (doesn't match the checksum that the KS disk said it should have), the A1000 assumes memory has been corrupted and asks for a new KS disk. You don't see this during the -first- boot (cold boot, reading KS) because the WCS doesn't get checked then. Try cold booting from a different KS disk, then give the three-fingered salute and see what happens. ..Bob (it's happened to me) -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such a trifling investment in fact." -- Carl S. Gutekunst