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From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: flakey amigas
Message-ID: <2909@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 03:41:40 GMT
Reply-To: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh)
Organization: World Athlete's Foot Foundation
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As much as I love our favorite machine, I have to confess that all my
amigas have been pretty flakey.  My A1000 had an excuse (evil phone
contractors poured fine grit on it -- the keyboard semi-recovered but
the drive never did) but my brand new B2000 should work just fine.  It
doesn't.  I keep reading about people who keep their machine on for
days at a time without rebooting: I'm lucky if I can run mine for a
couple of hours before it gurus on me.  Sometime's it's only a matter
of 15 minutes or so.

I keep getting guru number 00000003's and some 00000004's.  (I'm not
sure what those are -- I have the original RKMs and I could never make
heads or tails out of the exec/alerts.h listing).  I realize that the
machine has no memory protection, but if I run precisely one
application after rebooting, it shouldn't crash nearly as often.  If
it only happened when I tested custom programs, I could understand,
but popular game programs (such as Tetrix and RogerRabbit) do it so
much that sometimes it seems they are unplayable.

I have a B2000 w/ Commodore 2 Meg expansion, a 2090A running a FFS
SCSI drive, 1.3 ROMS and a Flicker-fixer.  Nothing weird, as you see.
Does my experience sound typical or is there something wrong with my
machine?  I do have a fast hard disk now, so this is less of a problem
than it used to be, but it's still really annoying to get Roger into
the gag factory only to have the machine spectacularly crash.

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Darren Leigh -- I speak for myself, not the company.
Internet:  dleigh@hplabs.hp.com
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