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From: doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Blue screen
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.011737.14074@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 01:17:37 GMT
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Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <8525@crash.cts.com> neil@pnet01.cts.com (Neil Coito) writes:
>Could someone tell me what a blue screen mean on bootup.  I have a B2000 and
>on powerup I only get a blue screen.  Is this ROM failure?  Thanks for any
>help.

A Blue screen indicates an error in the custom chips.  The other colors are
as follows :

  RED: Error in the ROMs
  GREEN: Error in the CHIP RAM
  YELLOW: An error in the 68000 before a GURU could kick in.

I believe that these are correct and if anyone KNOWS better, please let
the world know.

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