multi@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Chuan Su Kuan) (03/27/90)
Before, whenever I heared people anguishedly talking about their tragic experiences with the Amigas, a silly grin of its own mind will appear on my face saying "Never me!" Well, last night, it happened... It all started when I tried to dial up the port selector to the main frames and AtalkIII won't responde to any key strock. I checked the phone, it's dead so I figued it to be an old classic case of bad wire connection and managed, eventually, to track down the source of a broken and SHORTED telephone line. No problem there except the part which you have to sit down on a chair for 1 1/2 hours reconnecting those tinny wires, all four of them. I got through that, relaxed, plugged the finished 'product' back onto its sucket, and " ". Yes, you guessed it, nothing happened, AtalkIII remained unresponsive of the keystrocks and left me in a state of panic. I rebooted the machine, took apart the supra modem (with the machine off, of course) and managed to break the prastic covering for the on/off switch during the process. Finally put it back on and fliped the switches and " ". Still panicking, I checked the connectors in the back panel by wiggling them lightly, and was stunned when loud squeaking sound coming out of the speakers as I TOUCH each one of the connectors. Immediately, I turned off the machine, unplugged all connectors, seperated the Supra SCSI interface, which is hooked up to a Seagate 277N and 2 Mag memory board from MAST, from the side expansion slot, and .......... SHAKE the 500 as you would when making strawberry milkshakes. That does [did] the job, mystically. So that was the story of my A500's near death experience from last night. Anyone's got any idea why ATalkIII won't work [so was it ATalkIII that's causing all that trouble? not likely as I did tried out other package with the same resultes] before the 2Mag Ram card was seperated from the 500 and the SHAKing operation performed on the machine? I would really like to find out what had happend so I can handle the situation in a more civilized manner, not relying on some mystical magic to save the day - and the $$$$. All reply please E-mail to ksu@louie.udel.edu. I will post the summary if there were enough interests. Thanks. -Kevin