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From: c164-1bj@cordelia.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: My Starboard is a White Dwarf
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 03:12:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 03:12:50 1987
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	Having stumped the local store and friends, here is my
	Amiga 1000 expansion woe:

I have a Starboard-2 with 2 megs of RAM, no other expansion products, and a
headache.  The Starboard worked fine when I got it, didn't work at my high
school when I brought it in to show off the Amiga, worked again at home,
doesn't work at my apartment in Berkeley, but works great at the local Amiga
dealer.

When it doesn't work, it is as if there is no board there at all.  Maybe it's
a grounding problem I thought.  Bought a surge protector and all that - nope.
It probably is the electrical system, though.  Switched plugs, distributed
devices on different plugs, etc. - no luck.

The Starboard is a great product... WHEN IT WORKS!  I don't know if this is
the fault of the Microbotics people or the original Amiga engineers.
(Didn't know kazoo about busses, but otherwise brilliant.)

Any suggestions?  I have a faint memory of some postings about grounding PAL
chips, etc.  I don't REALLY have to do that, do I?

	*&Jonathan "You can't do ANYTHING in 512K!" Dubman