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From: mxj2361@ultb.UUCP (M.X. Jen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A501 problems....
Message-ID: <1321@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 14:14:22 GMT
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Reply-To: mxj2361@ultb.UUCP (M.X. Jen )
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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   Hello there - I just sold my Amiga 1000 and bought an Amiga 500.
I'm having serious problems with this Amiga 500 and I'm regretting my
decision to sell my 1000.  This is what has happened so far and if
anyone knows of a solution at a reasonable cost please email me or
mail me here or at MXJ2361@RITVAX.BITNET or V117KDDL@UBVMS.BITNET
Many many thanks in advance.

Here are the problems:

(1) The Amiga 500 seems to lock up frequently - when I powerup sometimes
the capslock key starts to blink and the keyboard is locked up.  If I
reseat the A501 unit it sometimes works, or if I leave the computer off
for 5 minutes it will boot fine. 
(2) The internal drive on the Amiga 500 seems to have problems telling
if a disk is formatted or bad, if the write protect is on.  I seem to
get read/write errors more frequently and sometimes disk read good and
other times they are NON-DOS.  
(3) My C= 2002 Monitor died within a week after I had hooked it up to
my Amiga 500.  At first, at boot up I would get a blue screen/black
screen then I would get the workbench prompt.  At times the screen
would brighten and dim and finally one day the screen flashed and
then snapped and crackled.  After turning it back on, the screen was
totally out of sync.  The picture was semi-visible but there was alot of
distortion.  Totally unusable.  Also, sometimes when using my US
Robotics HST 1440 modem on my Amiga, I would hear characters being send
to my modem being echoed via my Speaker on my Amiga 500.      
   

The following questions are based on where/ and how much:
I'm looking to purchase the following type items for my Amiga 1000, used
or new.
(1) A expansion chassis with two or more Zorro II spec slots, with or
    without power.
(2) An inexpensive memory upgrade card I already have the A501 card, and
    would like to get an A2000 compatible card
(3) An inexpensive hard drive setup with autoboot.

Many thanks in advance, pardon any mistakes, this is my first time using
this system.

-Michael Jen

(716) 359-3121
US Snail: 16 Elaine Drive
          Rochester NY 14623
BITNET:   MXJ2361@RITVAX.BITNET
          V117KDDL@UBVMS.BITNET