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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: internal RAM expansion
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Date: 8 Jan 88 14:45:42 GMT
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In article <382@boole.acc.virginia.edu> pmy@boole.acc.virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
> 
> I've had my [Spirit] 1.5MB board for about six months approx.  All of the
> sudden out of the blue, I get the error "Clock not found" when
> executing Spirit.readclock.  Anybody know what's wrong?

Some program crashed, and wrote randomly to memory.  It hit the
"KickStart" bit in the clock (no, really, that's the name!).
The Kickstart bit turned the clock off.

You need to "setclock".  This will re-kick the oscilator into life.
If it does not say something to the effect of "resetting clock...
please wait 2 seconds" then get the new disk from Spirit.

Betcha did'nt know your A1000 now has TWO Kickstart disks :-).


(You might also want them to fix the board... it can be flakey)

** This chip is an Thomson/Mostek Zeropower RAM w/clock.  Ram, battery,
crystal all in one package.  Anyone ever though of a use for 2040 bytes
of battery-backed ram on the Amiga?  (assuming you need to run a disk
program to read it?)

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