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From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon)
Message-ID: <clemon.4994@lemsys.UUCP>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Janus Software Version && BB Problems
Distribution: world
References:  <ftegerer.677877023@faui09>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:43:23 EDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <ftegerer.677877023@faui09> ftegerer@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frohwalt Egerer) writes:
>Could someone tell me if my Janus Software is up-to-date? 
>
>When I reboot the AT it displays the following stuff under the BIOS-box:
>
>Janus-Handler 2.63
>Janus Library 33.1
>
>I suspect I got some strange sort of software, as I think the highest Janus
>version is 2.0. (Do I have a 1.63 that was patched by some $#@!&* ?) The
>software I have leaves 'dead' Intuition-screens, after you quit the
>PCColor (PCMono) Program. (Yes - the window closes)

        You are probably running qmouse right?  On my machine, qmouse
creates these hanging screens.  I use XOper to close them.

>Besides that thing there are many other Problems with the board, it often
>doesn`t configure when BindDrivers is executed, sometimes it has a
>Parity Error and someetimes it doesn't load the Janus Software from
>the Amiga side. (Just behaves like a normal AT without any Disk mounted
>to it)

        This sounds like the problems I'm having too.  Everyone says it's
seating but it's more than that for me.  I'll spend two days straight
reseating chips and wiggling and re-inserting my A2088 going through
various states of operation.  Sometimes it makes binddrivers wait, goes
BEEEEEP-BEEP-BEEP and continues and gives garbled screen on execution of
the PCWindow.  Sometimes it immediatly goes BEEEEEEP-BEEP-BEEP and garbles.
 Sometimes it locks the whole machine.  Sometime it won't even let the
hardware finish diagnostics, thrashes the floppy drives and the machine
won't even load Kickstart (B2000 REV 4.2 KS 1.2).  Right now I ripped the
stupid thing out.  I don't need a stupid XT BB screwing up the rest of my
computer.  (Expensive Ami stuff)

>--
>
>Don't panic!                   \\|||//         Frohwalt Egerer   Am Faerberhof 6
>                                |O O|                            8520 Erlangen
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