Subj : Re: My A2K died :"
To   : NEIL WILLIAMS
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Mon Sep 15 2003 23:28:00

Hi Niel,

At 11:51 AM on 13 Sep 03, Neil Williams said to Dennis Smith:

NW> Hi,
NW>  On Monday August 11 2003, Dennis Smith said to ALL:

 DS>         If there ever was a reason for getting an AmigaOne, I got one!!
 DS> My '020 A2K died last night. Does anyone remember what the purple
 DS> screen of doom signifies? I know it's a motherboard failure, but what?

NW> I had something similar on an A500 - try pressing down on each of the
NW> socketed chips, they may have worked loose.

NW> I think we can say that at least your CPU is working (the blinking power
NW> LED).

I even checked with a meter with 4.5 to 5 volts;same on KSrom. It's pin#31
on both chips. So, who signals the CPU to do its jmp start vector?
KSrom was swapped to a good one-- no change. BTW, this A2K was stock and
came from Ebay. Clean machine. Ebay stuff & SoftHut stuff went into it.

....

NW> One option is to swap components between these two A2000s - either to
NW> locate the fault, or to bring your old machine up to the spec of the
NW> other one :)

Well, I would like to determine a component/device first. Let's look at
that CTRL+(L)Amiga+(R)Amiga. What's the eletrical equivalent of these
keystrokes? How is a reset carried out by a device. When I turn on the
A2K, what events & devices actually tell KS to jump to Startup? Whaaaah,
my toy is broke! I don't know how it works? :-\

 DS> I'm thinking of letting SoftHut do the repairs. Should I fix or not
 DS> will depend on estimate. Any info will helpful...

NW> As you're getting some action from the machine, it sounds like only one
NW> component is bad. I'd expect a repair to be cheap(ish). I swapped the
CIAs around (there are two) didn't change anything. Normal is to read a
one flash 'caps lock' light at startup and I get that. I'll check this one
out after shut down.=:D

I was there the other night and could not find their repair policy; read
it a long time ago. They may have dropped the service! Oops, time is not
looking good for the old Amigas. 


NW>  Neil Williams, neil@zeusdev.co.uk - Uni, ug00026 at sees bangor ac uk
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 This is kind ironic my A2K WB2.1 is Zeus powered! =:o
The infamous PPS Zeus '040. :Dennis 
 
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