Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlf3.gvl.unisys.com!tredysvr!cellar!rogue From: rogue@cellar.UUCP (Rogue Winter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Help wanted about A500 crashes Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 04:49:51 GMT References: <16200.280c107f@levels.sait.edu.au> Sender: bbs@cellar.UUCP (The Cellar BBS) Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system Lines: 22 magaj@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > - Often the capslock light will flash, and the keyboard won't respond. > Usually I just warm-reboot with ctrl-left-amiga-right-amiga and the > keyboard responds again. Increasingly these days, this will not do > the trick. If this happens, I pull the thing apart, have a look > inside, see nothing wrong, put it back together, and hey presto! it > works again. > I have had this happen often, when I turn off the computer at the power switch and turn it back on again without giving it an adequate period for "cool-down." When it does occur, I simply shut off the machine again and wait a little longer. One thing that intrigued me was that you said you weren't having a software problem, but implied that you were using the same piece of software every time. Is this the case? Rogue Winter : "How can you say I only protected people in South rogue@cellar.uucp : Philadelphia? I protected people all over this city; it uunet!cellar!rogue: didn't matter if they were in South Philadelphia or Cellar 215/3369503: Northeast Philadelphia." -- Frank Rizzo, 4/12/91