Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!ames!ncar!asuvax!mcdphx!teroach.UUCP!dbk From: dbk@teroach.UUCP (Dave Kinzer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Weird clock problem Summary: All fixed! Keywords: Clock Broken Help Please Message-ID: <11341@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> Date: 29 Jul 89 04:53:25 GMT References: <11319@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> Sender: listen@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com Reply-To: dbk@teroach.UUCP (Dave Kinzer) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. Lines: 17 The strange problem of the resetting time-of-day clock has been traced to one of the 8520 chips not working. I also noted last night that my parallel port would send not data to the printer (also fixed). Of course, I needed to print right then, so I casually switched to using the serial port until I replaced the chip. Gawd, I love this machine. Suspected cause of failure: Thunderstorm last weekend. I normally leave the machine running, and I was out at the movies so I couldn't pull the plug. Much lightning, much heartache (well, a little anyway.) This chip also gets it's timing reference directly from the power supply (A2000 mode) with no on-board protection. Tisk Tisk. :^) -- * * * Imminent use of deathnet predicted. * * * // Dave Kinzer (602)897-3085 asuvax!mcdphx!teroach!dbk Opinions are mine. \X/