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From: kpmancus@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Keith P. Mancus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Screen changes to green during reboot
Message-ID: <429@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 14:16:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: phoenix.429
Posted: Tue Jul 14 14:16:10 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 06:58:43 EDT
References: <603@madvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kpmancus@phoenix.UUCP (Keith P. Mancus)
Distribution: world
Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
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Keywords: Is my Amiga going to die ?
Summary: My Amiga *DID* die!

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 ?

That sounds like a mild version of what happened to mine.  I just bought
a new A1000;  unfortunately, it only worked for half an hour before dying.
I am still waiting for my second one to arrive.
  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 remained this way for a few seconds, then the
screen turned gray again and the power light went back to steady.  A few
seconds later the cycle repeated.  This continued until I powered down.
At no time did the drive do anything at all.  I tried restarting it at
least 10-15 times, including a half hour pause to let the machine cool
off if overheated, but it persisted in the above mentioned behavior.
Finally I gave in and sent it back.  Has anyone else had this problem?
  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?

   -Keith