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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sick Amiga 1000 - HELP -
Summary: Sick Agnes chip, perhaps?
Keywords: gurus, gurus, gurus ... hardware problem?
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Date: 26 Oct 88 03:32:10 GMT
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Frequent gurus 3 and 4 sound like what happend shortly after I
bought an A1000 back in fall of 1985.  I discovered that I was
missing audio channel #3, so I took the machine back to the dealer,
who replaced Agnes (sp?).  I happily took the machine home and
played the Bach demo in Amigabasic to my content (about the only
thing at the time that was convenient for testing the audio).  The
mahcine started throwing gurus like crazy.  I suspected it was
Amigabasic, so I recopied it from the dealer's backup copy.  The
copy I made bombed too.  I was just about ready to write off
Amigabasic as buggy, when CLI started to guru too.  I took the
machine back for a second swap of the same chip.  For nearly the last
3 years, the machine has been fine.

One might try reseating the LSI chips.  I had a problem a few
months ago where the 68010 in my Unix PC seemed to be going bad.
Removing the 68010 and resocketing it put an end to the address
faults.

Old Apple IIs ran pretty hot.  I one case a person brought me a
sick Apple II.  Popping the lid off revealed that the 6502 had
jumped completely out of its socket!  I subsequently saw
wayward CPU chips in several other Apple IIs.  Apparently they used
pretty cheesey sockets.

--Bill