Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!tw-rnd!johnl From: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A1000 hardware problems Message-ID: <520@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 16:16:53 GMT References: <6SJM8NG.B.D88.R-WESTMAN@LINUS> Reply-To: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) Organization: NCR Distributed Systems Laboratory Lines: 33 In article <6SJM8NG.B.D88.R-WESTMAN@LINUS> D88.R-WESTMAN@LINUS.IDA.LiU.SE (Rickard Westman) writes: >my Amiga even refused to load Kickstart. It did >initialize the keyboard, and flashed the power LED, but then it was >dead. Specifically, it did not change the screen color from "very dark gray" >to "medium dark gray" as it normally does after 1-2 seconds. > I had this exact same symptom. The solution in my case was to ground the PALS. But this will not help you, because... >Amiga 1000 with internal 256K expansion. It does not have a daughter-board, >everything is on the motherboard. > Wow! This is a new thing to me! What type of hacks were performed to allow an A1000 with NO daughterboard? >[Much stuff deleted] > >Is poor grounding typical for A1000's, even those without daughterboards? > A1000's are famous for flaking out after more then one expansion device is connected. Typical solutions include grounding the PALS or replacing the PALS. In your case (No PALS, I guess) I don't know what to suggest. Good luck to you. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lindwall johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM "Above opinions are my own, not my employer's" Today is the last day of your life so far.