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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Harddrive Problem
Keywords: harddrive GVP hardcards MiniScribe Seagate problems
Message-ID: <571@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 25 Jul 90 20:23:39 GMT
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In article <26ad143b-2580.3comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com> bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:
>I've got a GVP Impact A500 with a couple megs of ram installed, and the same
>thing's happened to me if I leave the machine on for two or three days.  The
>ram is still noticed, but the drive is ignored.  First, the machine crashes,
>and then no matter what I do, the drive isn't noticed.  I tried power
>down/up, and it still doesn't work.  If I turn the machine off for a half
>hour, then back on, everything's fine.  I think there's something
>overheating in there, but I'm darned if I know what....

I had something equally as mysterious happening. I have a rev 4.2 A2000, with an A2090
and C='s 2-meg ram expansion. About every couple of months, it would suddenly start
crashing, for no reason. I could boot it and leave it untouched for a while and come
back and it would be flashing the ol' red GURU. The problems would get worse and worse,
until it wouldn't even reboot, crashing at random spots during the boot process. Power
cycling didn't help (even leaving it off for days at a time....turn it on and instant
GURU). The only thing that would fix it was opening it up and removing the boards and
putting them back. Then it would work fine for another couple of months. It got to be
a regular thing, and I got quite good at popping the cover and reseating the boards.

Finally I tried swapping the physical positions of the boards, and I haven't had a
problem since (except, of course, when the room temperature exceeds 100 degrees :-)
I don't question what works. :-)

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