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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Blue screen
Message-ID: <41250@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 22:09:52 GMT
References: <8525@crash.cts.com> <1474@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
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pzajax@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Peter Zajax) writes:

>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.
>
>I can't quite remember but I think you are right! and I think green is
>RAM failure. I have the document somewere but can't find it right now.
>You know what's it like when you need something :-)
>
>Hope I'm right. Sorry for you,
>Pete.

No, blue is a problem with the custom chips.  To wit:

	Dark gray     Ok Hardware
	Light gray    Ok Software
	Red           Bad ROM Checksum
	Green         Bad RAM
	Blue          Bad Custom Chips
	Yellow        Exception


There's another copy of the chart, Pete.  Good luck, Neil.

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