Subj : My A2K died :
To   : All
From : David L. Stevens
Date : Tue Sep 23 2003 10:15:10

DENNIS SMITH wrote:

>At 10:20 AM on 18 Sep 03, Neil Williams said to Dennis Smith:
>
>NW> Hi,
>...
>NW> The CPU, AFAIK, starts reading from zero on whatever it is connected to,
>NW> so it effectively control itself.
>
> DS> Well, I would like to determine a component/device first. Let's look at
> DS> that CTRL+(L)Amiga+(R)Amiga. What's the eletrical equivalent of these
> DS> keystrokes? How is a reset carried out by a device. When I turn on the
>...
>NW> The reset is by software, at least on the keyboard controller side.
>...
>NW> Hence, it's the power LED you want to see blink when you reset by C-A-A.
>NW> If it doesn't blink the problem is in the area of the CPU (when my
>NW> original CS-PPC died, the LED never blinked and acted the same whether
>NW> the 4000 had the failed CPU card installed or not at all!).
>
>  Right now, I'm not getting no reset or any change in the power LED.
>  It seems to me that a hardware RESET causes the power LED change. That's
>  the circuit that needs checking.
>[...]
>NW> It's the power LED you want to see flash. Even a perpetual guru would be
>NW> a start :)
>
>  =:o "...perpetual guru..."! Actually the KS bootup screen qualifies with
>     it's graphical perpetual floppy disk going in the drive. I'm trying
>     to get to that point! It's CPU or it Set/Reset circuit with new KSrom.
>   
>
>NW> If you determine that the fault is on the motherboard, and everything
>NW> else is fine, get another 2000. They go for very little on eBay. You can
>NW> even then sell the broken one to get some money back (people will buy
>NW> any old crap on eBay ;-)
>
>The A2K we're dicussing came from E-Bay for exactly that purpose - backup!
>Since my PPS ZEUS won't upgrade to OS3.1, so the backup was used. Worked
>damn good for about a year+. :) 
>
>I trying to decide which system to continue with KS2.05 & WB2.1 or KS3.1 &
>OS3.9. Which is the more classical? 
>
>The AmigaOne is setup for OS3.1. I fiddled the Emergency-Disks Startups
>to boot the CDs either OS3.5 or OS3.9 in UAE. :) So, I not a crisis of 
>being without an Amiga. Now that's poor when your Amigaless! =:o 
>
>I would like to spend time & resources on AmigaOne. That's why I got it!!
>Can you recommend a SCSI contoller for the A1. They're not cheap, but it's
>difficult to determine what works with linux? Someone mentioned that even
>if I had SCSI, linux UAE doesn't have the UAESCSI driver like WinUAE. So,
>that crinkles that plan.
>
>The Frieden brothers are back talking in the AmigaWorld.net forums! OS4 is
>just around the corner! They're short a graphic.libraries rewrite from
>booting up OS4 on AmigaOne PPC native. Sounds good! :)
>
>  
>
Have you tried cold-booting from a bootable floppy? Could be your hard 
drive is locked up and you're
only seeing a dimmed power led.


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