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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2500 won't boot with 2090A installed!
Message-ID: <6536@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 19:42:51 GMT
References: <193@syteke.UUCP> <97839@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3902@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3902@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> u572555600ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Frank kuan) writes:
>2 months. I turned on the computer one day, and got nothing, so I took
>it in for service. After 6 hours, the repairman Craig finds out that
>one of the traces on the back of the motherboard has a gap! I'm not
>kidding! It's true. Anyway, he bridged the gap with a piece of wire,
>and then it seemed to be working. Unfortuneately, there were some
>other injuries to my poor computer. The 1.3 kickstart rom flaked out,

	How did it happen?  Sounds like a power surge or power supply
problem.  (I vote for power surge)

>Is 1.2 kickstart causing my preformatted hard drive with 2090 controller
>not to work? (What it does when I turn on the computer with 2090 installed
>is the red power light flashes nonstop, and the screen remains grey). 
>Could someone knowledgable on this please let me know if my 2090 is fried?

	1.2 KS does not allow autoboot.  If you have an A2500, you have an
A2090A (with boot roms).  To work with 1.2KS, you have to pull the ROMS and
boot off floppy, like an A2090.


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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup