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From: bty00298@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help! A2630 hates my 2000
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Date: 12 Dec 89 10:39:06 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!bty00298    Dec 10 00:17:00 1989


I just got my A2630 as of December 8 (Friday) and all is not well.  After
many problems with random GURU's, trying every configuration possible,
replacing all of the chips on the motherboard, the silly thing finally
worked with all the boards in another Amiga.  What gives?  The only difference
between the two motherboards is that I have a 4.1 and we put it into a 4.2.

Well we thought everything had been solved - probably a defective motherboard
or at least a picky one - but no.  Now it appears that sometimes on powerup
the unit locks up on the white screen.  When this is occurring, a warm reboot
and a double mouse press later into 68000 mode, the unit goes into a
constant black-grey-black screen cycle.  This problem happens intermittently
usually after powering down for a period of 30 seconds and powering up again.
I can get around this problem by waiting a few minutes before trying to power
up again.

Another more frequent but less urgent problem has to do with the 2088 bridge-
board.  Sometimes Janus recognizes its presence and at other times it ignores
it.  This is usually remedied by restarting from a cold boot, but this is 
complicated by the above.  The binddrivers appears successful because the PC
side boots, but the Amiga side just complains that Janus.library is not
available.

Please can someone help!  Hopefully someone at Commodore such as Dave Haynie
can give some advice.

This is my current setup:

	Amiga B2000 rev 4.2
	2nd floppy drive
	A2088 Bridgeboard w/ Miniscribe Hardcard and Multi-Function Card
	Micron 2MB card
	MicroBotics HardFrame w/Quantum 40S
	A2630 w/2MB
	A-MAX w/M.A.S.T. Amigatosh drive

Any help or comments will be appreciated!

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Brian Yamanaka
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
bty00298@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu