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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP, problems with overdrive & ram board?
Message-ID: <668@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 26 Jul 89 11:22:14 GMT
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To: van-bc!rnews

In <20535@louie.udel.EDU>, STU00@vx.acss.umn.edu (Stuart Stanley) writes:
>	Amiga2000,  board revision 4.4
>	   A2620 card		('20 CPU card)
>	   A2052 card		(2meg RAM)
>	   Overdrive w/ autoboot (DMA)
>
>    Problem:  With this setup, the system crashes every now and
>	then.
>
>	He has tried swapping the 2meg card with an 8meg card
>	he had laying around and it didn't crash anymore. 
>
>	He also tried the whole thing (I think it was the whole
>	   thing, it may just have been the overdrive) in a
>	   different 2000 (rev 4.3) and it worked.

Have him swap power supplies. The 2052 is well known for its power hunger (I
like the term FASTMEM Toaster), and replacing with an 8 meg board (almost
anyone's 8 meg board) will considerably reduce the draw on the supply. And then
of course it's also well known that the power supply is the last thing any tech
checks (I know, I are one).

-larry

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