wtm@neoucom.UUCP (04/05/87)
Hi, You know I've been wondering for a while what the boot-up blinking and the boo-di-didi-didi-didi-didi-doot from the speaker indicate. Obviously, the sound indicates wheter or not you've got your audio cable put on correctly. So far, I haven't run across a description of the blinkey LED in the tech dox. It'd be neat if it was smart enought to blink some sort of error code if it detected a hardware failure that prevented the monitor from operating. I guess, at the very least it is positive indication that the mahcine is rebooting, which would help in spotting the occasional irrational software that causes a reboot sans guru visitation. --Bill wtm@neoucom.UUCP --or-- ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm
jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (04/06/87)
[A sacrificial token.....] I don't know what great internal significance the blinkey-boot-up has, but it does mean *something*. The instructions that come with the Turbo-Amiga (CSA) say that the blinkey-boot-up light should flash at a rate about half that of a standard Amiga to indicate that the 68020 has assumed total control of the Amiga's metabolism. Why a digital (beneficial) virus such as the 68020 should cause the light to blink at half the rate escapes me, but......it KNOWS. -Jere
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (04/07/87)
In article <538@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: >Hi, > You know I've been wondering for a while what the boot-up >blinking and the boo-di-didi-didi-didi-didi-doot from the speaker >indicate. Obviously, the sound indicates wheter or not you've got >your audio cable put on correctly. Basically, the blinky-LED and the screen background color tell the initiate how far a sick machine gets before it craps out. The shift-lock LED on the keyboard also indicates keyboard problems. The audio stuff is supposed to be the opening notes of some classical theme, but since it's part of the boot ROM's, it dissapears when you have kickstart in ROM. Sorry for not posting the details, but I don't have them at hand and will have to do so on another day. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
markr@garfield.UUCP (04/07/87)
In article <538@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP writes: > You know I've been wondering for a while what the boot-up > blinking and the boo-di-didi-didi-didi-didi-doot from the speaker > indicate. Obviously, the sound indicates wheter or not you've got > your audio cable put on correctly. > > --Bill Well Bill wonder no more: I went to plug in an IBM printer with an IBM cable into my Amiga. When I flick on the Amiga, the old LED blinked and never stoped. [It didn't even look at kickstart!] When I took out the cable it worked fine again. [[Can you say lucky boys and girls?]] That was as close to blowing my Amiga that I have ever come yet! Joseph Dawson
kinner@wsucshp.UUCP (04/09/87)
You know I've been wondering for a while what the boot-up
blinking and the boo-di-didi-didi-didi-didi-doot from the speaker
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I believe that's called the "Power Chord".