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From: vac159g@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Simon Cocking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Flickering power LED on A500...
Summary: Is this the power supply?
Keywords: Power LED, flicker, power supply
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.011024.16904@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 21 Nov 90 01:10:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Funny Walks, Monash Uni
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I have a small problem concerning my A500...
	The other day I was listening to some samples, so I decided to turn
off the audio filter (and therefore the power led), when I noticed that
the power LED flickered randomly.  I know I _do_ have a flakey power supply
(the machine will occasionally reboot when you least expect it), but this
seems (to me anyway) to be unrelated.
	This happens mainly when there is some sort of I/O going on...disk, audio,
keyboard, but only under AmigaDOS (ie, not when something takes over the
machine).
	I'll check that there are no loose solder joints on the motherboard
and/or keyboard, but since this problem only surfaces under AmigaDOS,
I'm not opstimistic that this is the cause of the problem.  (Hmm...this
is beginning to sound expensive :-( Paula perhaps?)

	Any ideas??

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