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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardrives and the A3000
Message-ID: <20248@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 05:02:20 GMT
References: <17727@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1991Mar20.220547.4677@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <20023@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar22.064048.12805@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <18e0ae8a.ARN1503@venus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <18e0ae8a.ARN1503@venus.UUCP> wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust) writes:
>In article <1991Mar22.064048.12805@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, William A Warner writes:
>
>> Has anyone figured out yet why the 3000 flashes a yellow screen at you 
>> instead of automaticly rebooting after a crash?
>
>I have encountered simular problems on two 3000.  They all were
>related to the "extra" board with the expansion slots! So check
>out this board, if it's installed properly. After un/plugging this
>board everything works fine...

	Hmmm, the prototypes and early ones used to fail to boot at all
(yellow screen) if the daughterboard wasn't plugged in (caught DaveH trying
to figure out why a 3000-type machine wouldn't boot just a week or two
ago - "hey dave, wouldn't this here daughterboard help?".  :-)  It's
always fun to kibitz at hardware when you're a software type... :-)  Just
shows that even hardware gods like Dave can forget things at times.

	Yellow screen does seem correlated with daughterboard issues.  I
don't know what it means myself (bryce would know).  Aren't the colors
part of the FAQ?

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is in anything other than my personal opinion.
Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system
is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)