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From: thomas@cbmvax.commodore.com (Linda Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 Amiga 3000 Questions (from a new Owner ;^))
Message-ID: <13015@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 13:40:59 GMT
References: <1065@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: thomas@cbmvax (Linda Thomas)
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In article <1065@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes:
> 
> 	I just got my A3000 Saturday and I have 2 questions of
> immediate concern.  First, I had to go through a dealer 2 hours
> away from me, and halfway home I realized that after the dealer
> had finished checking out my system to see if it worked (see below
> for a small detail), he did NOT do anything to park the HD. 

The Quantum hard drives used in the A3000 automatically park when powered off.
You should never need to worry about parking them.

> 	Second question.  When the dealer turned on my system, I noticed
> that the 1950 multisync monitor "flickered" or "jumped" a little twice
> during startup.  The whold screen deforms for ~.5 seconds once before 
> and once after the Loading WB 2.X (or something like that) message 
> appears.  The dealer said that this was natural, but it doesn't look
> very natural to me.  It does NOT seem to affect the operation at all.
> Any ideas as to what causes this and if it is normal??  I know my
> description is a bit vague, but it is hard to describe this.

In which video port was the monitor plugged?  If it was the 23 pin port, you
were seeing the monitor re-synchronize to the video when the system changes
video frequency.  This happens when changing screen modes and when rebooting.

> Scott Sutherland
> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu

Hope this helps!

	-Linda
-- 
Linda Thomas, Commodore Amiga Test Engineering
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