Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!jpotter From: jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 Can't take the heat Message-ID: <3399@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> Date: 25 May 91 05:17:42 GMT References: Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA Lines: 29 In article rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes: When ever the temperature gets to be near 80 deg. F my A3000 seems to become extreemly flaky. In the winter I could leave the machine running continuously without any problems, however now that it's summer if it's left on for an hour or so I can expect all kinds of errors (the drive fails checksums, it guru's kind of randomly, file requestors show lots of garbage, and ocassionally I'll get a crash to a yellow screen). After letting the machine cool down a bit it works fine again. It seems like it's a memory problem, I had suspected the 4MB of RAM I added, but this problem still happens without it. I had tried taking it in last fall, but the repair center (which was probabily nice and cool) didn't find anything wrong with the machine. Has anyone else out there had this problem with their A3000? I'de also welcome any suggestions? I don't mind the machine being flaky due to heat right now since I have air conditioning, but at college I won't and I need the machine to be dependable. I had exactly the same problem, and after having the DMAC chip (the dma controller) replaced the machine has been fine. Mind you, it took almost 6 weeks to get a new DMAC (during which time the 3000 was unusable - this was in the middle of summer!). Jon -- | Jon Potter | | I'd really like to | | P.O. Box 289 | jpotter@itd.adelaide.edu.au | change the world... | | Goodwood, SA | FidoNet : 3:680/829 | But they won't give me | | Australia 5034 | | the source code. |