Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU!pmy From: pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: A500 woes Message-ID: <579@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 23:04:33 GMT Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) Distribution: na Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 23 I have a feeling this has already gone around, but I wasn't paying attention. I'm using an A500 which exhibits some rather flakey behaviour. My configuration is as follows: A500 with Microbotics 512K internal expansion (w/clock), Starboard 2 with 2M RAM and a 2nd floppy drive. When running with just the 512K internal expansion, the machine crashes often and inexplicably. I figure either the board itself is bad, or the power supply can't handle the load. (Seems to me I recall hearing about problems with the power supply.) When running with just the Starboard box the system seems quite a bit more stable, though still takes a dive from time to time... especially soon after power-up. When running bare-bones (except for 2nd floppy), there seem to be no problems, but I need the memory. Any insights or ideas? Please forgive me if this has already been thoroughly hashed over. Many thanks for *any* assistance. Peter M. Yadlowsky Academic Computing Center University of Virginia pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU