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From: timg@cbmtor.uucp (Tim Grantham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Quirky A-Max II
Message-ID: <474@cbmtor.uucp>
Date: 8 Apr 91 04:14:09 GMT
Reply-To: timg@cbmtor.uucp (Tim Grantham (GUEST))
Organization: Commodore Business Machines CANADA
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In article <91087.150624DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes:
>
>     Okay folks, gimme an opinion.
>
>     When I first power on my Amiga for the session, I can run A-Max II just
>fine.  But if I've had the computer on for oh, say, 20 minutes or more, and I
>try to run A-Max II, I get a "cartridge start error" thing.  No exceptions.
>     So I turn off the computer and turn it back on.
>     No Dice.
>     So I turn it off and let it sit for a half hour with a fan blowing on the
>back.  Turn it back on and run A-Max II.
>     No Problem.
>
>     What do ya think?  Bad ROM chips?  Flaky cartridge?  What?
>
I would check your CIA chips, the 8520s. Try switching them and see what hap-
pens. Try attaching your A-Max cartridge to another Amiga and see if the 
problem persists -- if not, then something's wrong with your Amiga.

I had to do all this when my A-MaxII suddenly stopped working with a ``can't
find cartridge ROMs'' error. After finding that they worked fine on another
machine, I switched the CIA chips in my machine. The problem disappeared. So
I bought a new CIA chips and now it's fine. The wierd thing was that my 
external floppy drives, both the Mac compatible and the Amiga 5.25" drive 
attached to the ROM cartridge, always worked just fine.

Tim.