Subj : Re: My A2K died :\
To   : RENE LAEDERACH
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Tue Sep 16 2003 22:28:00

Hi Rene,

At 6:30 PM on 14 Sep 03, Rene Laederach said to me:

RL> DENNIS SMITH wrote to ALL:

DS> Checked again without Merlin gfx card. No good. Removed all the cards!
DS> No good -- I even got winking power light. The PSU is OK. Anyone got
DS> some experiece in any of this?

RL> IIRC a purple screen is some broken chip RAM, but it would be
RL> interesting to know how many times the power led blinks so we can tell
RL> what might be broken as well.

The power light is steady all the time now.

RL> What I would try is to remove and reinsert all socketed chips to see if
RL> this rubs away the layer of oxidation that accumulated over the years.

I did that all that. It's a clean machine. I even swapped tha CIA around.
No changes. Checked the voltage on pin#31 - cpu and KSrom; good 4.5 to 5
volts.

DS> So, I using my old WB2.1 A2K. It has problems, but it bootsup! :)
DS> I'm writing this with CynusED v4.2 and Q-Blue v2.4 =:o Eeks, I fell
DS> into time warp.

RL> The good old CED! I should give it a try again, but I've become too
RL> spoiled by

I like GoldED v5. over CED! 

RL> Emacs on a Unix boxen. But then, I preferred GoldED anyway. However, I
RL> could not think about using a diskette-only Amiga system...

This Z28 '040 has .5Gb and 50Mb Quantum HDs :)

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

RL> If it involves soldering the motherboard, it's a love question, because
RL> the cost will be high. What I suggest is to for the the AmigaOne. As I'm
RL> currently planning to do. Else, go Linux and get UAE.

Well, I'm more interested in the A1 than the old A2Ks. Could I live 
without a classical Amiga? Hmmm...that's hard. Amiga is a class of it's
own. I will scrap one of them to save the other.:-|

LinuxUAE, right now is crap. =:o It doesn't have a JIT engine which makes
it lumber along bad at about the speed of a stock A500. I have noticed
though this in a KDE desktop. If I go with Gnome, it's a lot snappier,
like an '020 at 14MHz roughly. Do you think its prgs in the background?  

Any particular linux in mind? BTW, Yellow Dog v.3 is shaping up! It would
be nice if the installer for A1 was ready around OS4 is released.
  
:Dennis

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