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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Perfect Sound Isn't, and Possible Hardware Trouble
Message-ID: <3162@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 03:21:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3162
Posted: Thu May 28 03:21:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 01:20:09 EDT
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Summary-1: If you have an ASDG rack, you're hosed.
Summary-2: Why is my WorkBench misbehaving?  Bad 8520's?
Developer-Number: CT01206

[ Looking for suggestions for the middle button... ]

	I picked up Perfect Sound today, and went home with thoughts of
digitizing all sorts of neat sounds I have.

	It didn't work out that way.  I plugged the Perfect Sound digitizer
on the back of my Amiga, and found that the RCA plugs missed my ASDG rack by
about 1/8 of an inch.  Clearly not enough room for the sound cables.
Neither the cage nor the digitizer could be convinced to give a little extra
room.  So I couldn't do all those things I wanted.

	Granted, I could buy an extension cable, and plug the Amiga in one
end, and Perfect Sound into the other.

	Just thought I'd warn all you ASDG owners about this in case you're
considering Perfect Sound:  There's an extension cable in your future.

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	And Now For Something Completely Different.

	My Amiga is misbehaving is a most unusual and previously unwitnessed
manner.  When I start up WorkBench, and attempt to perform an operation with
an icon (dragging or double clicking), the machine may or may not perform it
right away.

	If I drag an icon (on a freshly started WorkBench), the icon will
track the mouse for a while, then stick.  The mouse still moves.  After an
indeterminate time, the icon will jump to the place where let the selection
button up (i.e. the place where I dragged it).  If I double-click on an
icon, the window/application may or may not open immediately.  If it doesn't
open immediately, I have to keep clicking to "wake the machine up."

	During all this time, the mouse is still active, and drives still
click if I take the disks out.  If, during the limbo period, I click the
mouse button that will perform some graphic operation (e.g. right button to
render a menu, left button to activate/inactivate a window, etc), or in any
way try to get the WorkBench to perform another operation while I'm waiting
for the icon to move/activate, the mouse locks up, and it's reboot time.

	I'm pretty certain that one of my 8520's is bad.  It used to be that
I couldn't turn on the printer without locking out the keyboard.  On
someone's advice, I swapped the 8520's, and things seemed to be normal
again.  However, I always wondered if I wasn't trading one kind of strange
behavior for another.  Could this be the consequence?

	Help!  I don't trust my Amiga to function reliably anymore, and
hesitate to do any real work on it (as though what I've been doing was
real to begin with :-) ).  Is it tech bench time for my friend?

	Thanks in advance.

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Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	ihnp4!ptsfa -\
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