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From: estdwha@warwick.ac.uk (CrisP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga Spontaneously Rebooting when Keyboard is Danced Upon
Keywords: Keyboard, Rebooting
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.023748.2098@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Feb 91 02:37:48 GMT
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In article <16340@chopin.udel.edu> jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
>Does this following scene happen to you?
>
>You're sitting at your Amiga 2000, typing really really really fast,
>or simply typing to fill a text file with meaningless data,
>so, you hit about 30 keys at a time, or run your fingers along
>one line, like a piano keyboard to get in as much keyboarding
>in a short time.
>
>All of a suddon: >POOF< Your amiga reboots and you feel like
>it's time to, uh oh, go Mac.

Go Mac? Are you seriosly deranged?

>
>We've all had our machines just spontaneously reboot. It's a fact

I think you'll find a spontaneous reboot to be very rare. Most Amiga crashes
are in the form of task held requestors. Crashes in the from of skiping this
into the guru message requires a program. And a reboot without so much as a
guru is not something that often hapens in a working Amiga.

>of AmigaHood, but, we learn to controll it and figure out what we
>did so we dont do that series of events again - but this is different...

I agree; this is different. And I can relate to figureing out how we made
a common Amiga crash to happen.
For example: Did you know you can crash intuition by moveing or resizing
a window while an application is also trying to do so?

>
>It happens WHENEVER I type reeeeeeeelly fast... hit several keys at time,
>or generally really go fast on the keys.
> 
>And if any of you think I'm accidentially hitting contol, amiga, and amiga
>at the same time... Uh, NO!

Are you sure that you are not causeing keyboard "ghostings" of those three
keys by holding down too many of the matrix?

>
>Lemme know if this has happened to you, and if yes, how you fixed it.
>
>It seems to happen less, the further I jam in the keyboard to the A2000
>receptacle...
>But, even that doesnt stop the spontaneous reboot when I smack the keys.
> 
>Also, are amiga's keys pressure sensitive??? Nah...Cant be. 
>
>
>Monitor of comp.sys.amiga.emulations
> -jeremy
>

I surgest you try treating your keyboard with a bit more respect.

~CrisP.
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