Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Screen changes to green during reboot Message-ID: <8707150441.AA03209@cogsci.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 00:41:15 EDT Article-I.D.: cogsci.8707150441.AA03209 Posted: Wed Jul 15 00:41:15 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 02:18:52 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 32 In article <429@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU> you write: >In article <603@madvax.UUCP> davidlo@madvax.UUCP (David Lo) writes: > >> Lately, while warm booting my Amiga, I have noticed the screen >> changes to a green color for a brief moment before the "insert workbench" >> message. Does this means some parts is going to die ? No. Green is one of the random colors that can come up. > The symptom was simple; after powerup, it would pause for a moment with >the screen gray (I think this is normal), then, at the point when it should >have requested the Kickstart disk, the screen turned green and the power >light started flashing. > It seems to me that something this major must have been a failure of the >68000, its PIA, or one of the other fundamental chips. Does anyone >know for certain? This DOES mean something is dead. In a former life I designed and manufactured 256K ram cards. This behavior with a newly manufactured ram card meant that yet *another* of the PC boards had a short from ground an address or data line. Offhand I'd guess this means "chip memory test bad" and the number of blinks represents a memory address. I'd STILL like CATS to post a complete description of the powerup disgnostics (Color flash, light blink, sound test etc.). ----------------------------- |\ /| . Ack! (NAK, EOT, SOH) {o O} . ( " ) bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!cogsci!bryce U "Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure."