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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Dead A2620 board...what do I do with it???
Message-ID: <3849@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 90 02:10:58 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <1990Nov17.034536.7954@nas.nasa.gov> gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov
(Robert Michael Gutierrez) writes:

>I have a dead 2620 board.
>
>It first starting having guru problems (nope, like an idiot, I never wrote
>the guru errors down...), then it wouldn't boot up properly.  Now, it
>just doesn't exsist in the system anymore. I can't even get the 68000/
>68020 menu up, it just boots straight into the 68000 and thinks the 2620
>doesn't exisit.

     My 2620 has been slowly dying too, with symptoms very much like
yours.  It starts off flickering between black and gray screens about
once a second, with the power light flashing in time with the screen.
If I leave it for several minutes, it will eventually boot properly,
although it might come up with gurus or the Workbench hand, or otherwise
need the three-finger salute to help it along.  Once it decides to work,
though, everything is fine for as long as I leave the power on.

     I mentioned this to my dealer, and he recognized the symptoms.
Unfortunately, it looks like it'll have to go back to the factory for
repairs.  I can live the the 68000 for now; what I miss is that two
megabytes of memory that are on the 2620.  I can't live in a single
megabyte any more :-(  Take that, you MS-DOS freaks.  :-)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
Intel put the "backward" in "backward compatible."