Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 3000 Flakyness Message-ID: <19355@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 28 Feb 91 01:17:48 GMT References: <674.27c41ac9@vger.nsu.edu> <23343@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 In article <23343@well.sf.ca.us> cassiel@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes: > >Another thing (concerning installing ZIP SCRAM, yellow screen cycling), >sometimes it can make a difference if you power down for a good long time, >something like five minutes. I've noticed that it can take a while for the >system to "drain down"....could this have anything to do with the battery- >backed ram? No. The battery-backed ram is part of the clock chip. However, external scsi devices that are powered up (on some pre-production (maybe early production as well, though I don't think so)) may feed a bit of power back in via terminator power (a diode was backwards). I doubt that causes the scram problem, though. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)