pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) (03/12/91)
In reply to another question to do with Spectre, I wrote about my mouse and keyboard dieing (no response all of a sudden) under Spectre. I speculated that my external floppy 520's power was being overloaded or that the IKBD processor was going. Last night, I substituted a later (beefier?) Atari switching Power supply (PS) for my original non-switching supply. Result: the mouse is now dieing under TOS. I guess that's progress - I was pretty sure that the problem was not Dave Small's code. However, has anyone else had this problem - must I replace the IKBD processor, or just clean and reseat it? For that matter, could this problem be due to something I'm not considering? After all, both processors *and* their software *and* the cabling between them must be in good shape, right? I have rather beaten on the cable to the motherboard in past times 8-). Thanks for any help, Bob Pegram pegram@griffin.uvm.edu or ...!uvm-gen!pegram
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (03/12/91)
pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes: >Last night, I substituted a later (beefier?) Atari switching Power >supply (PS) for my original non-switching supply. Result: the mouse >is now dieing under TOS. I guess that's progress - I was pretty sure >that the problem was not Dave Small's code. However, has anyone else Try to insert a gold-plated sockes between the original sockes and the keyboard processor. Atari uses lousy sockets... hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP Hi! (Zaphod Beeblebrox)