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From: wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardrives and the A3000
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.215530.14575@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:55:30 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.064048.12805@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <18e0ae8a.ARN1503@venus.UUCP> <20248@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <20248@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>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?
>
I checked the daughter board out and it was OK. In fact, I removed it just
to see what the symptom would be. Without the daughter board, the machine
would not even boot.  It would just give you those nasty yellow screen flashes.
But, this is not my symptoms.  My symptoms are a normal boot, normal work,
then if I make it GURU then instead of just rebooting after selecting reboot
by clicking left mouse button it does the yellow screen flashes and I have 
to do a three finger reboot.


-- 
Art Warner
wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu
Amiga makes it happen.......IBM, Mac, Sun, and Next make it expensive!