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From: aaf4808@venus.tamu.edu (FORD, ANDREW ALLEN)
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Subject: A3000 woes : @!#$!%%@!
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Date: 20 Jun 91 23:55:09 GMT
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I am in need of some help.

After 2 trouble-free years with my A500, I recently Power-Upped to an
A3000-16/50. I have had nothing but problems with it. I originally received
it on 6-14. UPS shipped from Houston. It wouldn't boot up. No disk activity,
nothing. I sent it to Houston (Micro Search) and the tech guy there said it
was working okedokee. I got it back from them today (6-20). I fired it up and
it worked. For about twenty minutes. I was playing with the backdrop pattern
and the whole thing just froze. No guru stuff, just everything stopped moving.
I couldnt warm boot. So I powered down and then on again, after a suitable
pause. Now, before kickstart or anything else is loaded, I get:

ERROR   CAN'T GET MEMORY!

Or something really close. The guy at MicroSearch said it might be a bad or
improperly seated chip. I havent yet had the opportunity to check all of the
chips. If it turns out that they are seated properly, what then? A friend of
mine said that I should stop fooling with Micro Search and get in touch with
Commodore and their Gold Plan people.

Any suggestions or comments will be much appreciated. Its going on 5 weeks 
since I have had a computer. Withdrawl is painful.

Andy.