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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hardware problem in Software ??
Message-ID: <613@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 15:04:05 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.183634.3676@csc.anu.oz.au>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1990Dec4.183634.3676@csc.anu.oz.au> myb100@csc.anu.oz.au writes:
>
>Amyway, sometimes on boot-up, my 'm' and 'n' keys don't work. 'Fine' everybody
>says - 'check your keyboard contacts'. Well, yes, that'd be my reaction too,
>except for this: There is no way to cheat in software to get the 'n' or 'm' to
>appear either. I used Snap to pick up a word containing an 'n', and when I
>put it down, the 'n' was gone !!

Well, I remember similar things from the very old days with an A1000 here.
But I fail to remember what we did against it. When such a thing happens
today to my Ami, then surely I had a terrible software running before
that destroyed some of the system RAM. (But I can't explain why it always
hits the 'm' and/or 'n' key, I experienced the same.) So, do you have
anything in your startup-sequence that could deliver such unpredictable
results?

Perhaps this is simply a RAM hardware problem. One should have a severe
RAM testing software on hand that could check such a RAM thoroughly.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk