Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!voder!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!dan 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 References:Reply-To: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) Distribution: na Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 35 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> -- The Heineken Uncertainty Principle: -- You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.