| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hello ..
I have a friend who is having a problem with his Amiga
A500. At power up the red Led flashes 11 times stops for a few
seconds and then starts flashing 11 times again...etc....
The green LED never comes on and there is no picture
Can anybody out ther help me please????
I take it the flashing LED is an error code of some
sort ?,does anyone know what they mean? I would be thankful
for any info what-so-ever.
Thanks for reading this....
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1495.1 | color of screen | ANGORA::JANZEN | Tom 2965421 LMO2/O23 | Wed Jun 22 1988 16:07 | 2 |
the error code is in the screen color. tell us the screen color.
Tom
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| 1495.2 | SCREEN COLOR | HAGGIS::MALKY | Mon Jun 27 1988 17:07 | 6 | |
Dear Mike,
Thanks for your reply,the screen color is cyan.
Many thanks.
Malcolm.
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| 1495.3 | ANGORA::JANZEN | Tom 2965421 LMO2/O23 | Mon Jun 27 1988 18:19 | 3 | |
if by cyan you mean a greenish color, green at bootup denotes a
chip ram problem, according to an old memo from usenet.
Tom
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| 1495.4 | I SEE NO CYAN!!! | HAGGIS::MALKY | Tue Jun 28 1988 13:22 | 7 | |
Mike,
Sorry to mess you about ,the actual screen color is a shade
is mauve.....I cant quite see why my friend thought cyan was a purple
? ,but anyway
Thanks again.
Malcolm
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| 1495.5 | amiga colors from network usenet | COUGAR::JANZEN | Tom 2965421 LMO2/O23 | Tue Jun 28 1988 13:38 | 22 |
+ From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) + Subject: Re: Screen changes to green during reboot + Date: 16 Jul 87 16:09:37 GMT + Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA + + Actually, green is meaningful in the right context. On initial powerup, the + first meaningful color displayed is dark grey, which indicates the system + has passed the "hardware test". The 68000 is running, and some hardware + registers are seen. Next is the light grey screen, the "software test", + where the system software is starting to come up. Finally, the "white" + screen comes up indicating that the machine is just about ready to ask for + a disk; everything has checked out OK. + + Failures come up as colors. GREEN indicates a CHIP RAM failure of some kind. RED indicates a ROM/WCS failure. BLUE indicates a custom chip failure. YELLOW indicates that a 68000 exception trap has occurred before the + normal OS trap handler (the GURU code) has been installed. When a failure + is detected, the OS will often retry, so you can see cycling from failure to + test, at least for the right kind of failures. | |||||
| 1495.6 | Reseating chips works for me. | FROBUS::MOORE | Tom Moore MRO1-3/SL1 297-5224 | Tue Jul 19 1988 21:41 | 10 |
I also have had problems with my A500. Each time pushing down on all of the chips has fixed it. I get the green screen and the red light flashes. The shop removed and reseated all of the chips the first time. I tried to remove some of the chips to reseat them and decided there was too much risk of really breaking it by bending or breaking a pin. I thought the A500 owners would like to know what type of problems they might encounter. -Tom- | |||||