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From: nelson@ (Matt Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help! my Amiga is sick
Summary: A1000 wont boot
Message-ID: <26A2148E.20983@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 90 19:25:02 GMT
Reply-To: nelson@psroot.ps.uci.edu
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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	Help!
	Here's one for the gurus out there.  I recently tried to
boot my trusty ol' A1000 and was greeted with the following series
of sights and sounds (and how long they last) at powerup:

	grey screen, ~7s (normal)
	green screen + moving black wedge shaped patterns, ~3s
	green screen, ~3s
	green screen + smaller moving black wedges, ~3s
	green screen + all 3 floppies gronking + black flashes, ~20s
	flash of blue which fades immediately to...     
	black screen, ~6s
	blue screen, ~7s
	black screen + short, white, moving horizontal lines, ~2s
	black screen + gronking floppies (all 3 of em), ~30s
	black screen + moving white lines (see above) + steady tone
		similar to emergency broadcast test tones, ~2s
	black screen.

	The black screens might actually be 'blank' screens, and there
were a few little blips and beeps coming out of the speaker at various
times.  The system consists of:  A1000, 68010, 2.5M RAM, 2 ext. floppies,
A-Time clock, Future Sound digitizer, 1080 monitor.  I have tried powering
up with various combinations of the external stuff unplugged, and get very
little variation in the above sequence of abnormalities.
	I would be grateful for any help in figuring out what is ailing
my little 'female friend'.  If this looks too expensive, I might soon be
selling a wide assortment of A1000 replacement parts, peripherals, and 
software.

	Thanks in advance,    -matt	(nelson@psroot.ps.uci.edu)