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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: System crashes, asks for kickstart!
Message-ID: <446@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 00:30:45 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
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Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article  armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) writes:
>After finally getting my hands on the 1.3 Enhancer package, I
>discovered a strange system crash. After doing some extensive file
>copying to and from the ram: disk(pity me, still making do w/ only the
>internal drive!), the power indicator light began flashing its
>fatefull message to me. I instinctively pulled out the Workbench disk
>from my disk case and was utterly amazed when the screen showed the
>hand holding the KICKSTART 1.3 disk! I put in Kickstart which loaded
>ok and then Workbench, which also loaded fine. This scenario has
>happened several times to me since switching over to 1.3- usually when
>I do something that consumes alot of memory. (I have a 1000 w/ 512k.)
>What causes this? Has anyone else experienced it? I thought Kickstart
>was loaded into protected memory...what's goin' on?!?
>-GEA

I had left a message to the same effect before I read yours...  So this
is not an isolated problem.  I also have a 512k 1000 and have had the problem
after making a bunch of commands resident and running Access! in my
Startup-Sequence.

So Amiga-gurus, what's going on?  This has never happened to me before
1.3.

Although I have seen a program called rekick which flashes
pretty colors and goes back to kickstart.  From disassembly I noticed
that is uses a 68000 RESET instruction.  Apparently this resets the
WCS.

So is somehow a RESET being accidently executed when the Amiga runs out of
memory?  After it "accidently" gets into supervisor mode?  What's the deal?

 
-- Dan Howell  <...!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!dan>  
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