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From: CJC105@psuvm.psu.edu (Chris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: More A2286 woes
Message-ID: <90097.203146CJC105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 00:31:46 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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A while ago I posted a letter about my flakey A2286.  It seemed the card
was(is) having problems with RF noise.  Rerouting the drive cable to lay
under my expansion cards instead of over cured most of the problems.  It boots
90 percent of the time with no problems but when it doesn't here are some of
the symptoms, one of the following will happen:

        1. A Yellow screen after cold boot.
        2. Hangs when the first CLI window opens.
        3. AMouse fails to find process (and PCDisk fails also)
        4. LoadWB will fail.  I get a permanent ZZZZzzz cloud on the
           workbench screen.
        5. Bridgeboard fails to find all of it's ram.  It will usually
           find only 128k, or it will fail to find the expansion ram over
           640K.
        6. Bridgeboard fails to boot at all.
           Number 5 and 6 are probably the cause of number 3

With the addition of a VGA card the failer rate is 50%.  I know it's not a
problem with the way my software it set up because it DOES work WHEN it
boots properly.

I have seen several posts from people with the same problem as mine.
My feeling is that Commodore knows about the problem but doesn't know what to
do about it.  I think they are being hush-hush about it and are hoping it will
go away.  If someone at Commodore could responed I would be very grateful.
I don't mind getting it exchanged/fixed but I don't like being kept in the
dark about such a common problem.

BTW my hardware setup is:
      Amiga 2000 rev 6.2
      2091 controler
      A2286 bridgeboard


                                             Chris Conrad
                                             cjc105@psuvm.bitnet