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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Diagnostic Colors
Message-ID: <2906@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 22:47:17 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2906
Posted: Sat Dec  5 22:47:17 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Dec-87 04:43:22 EST
References: <775@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 18
Keywords: Could you elaborate on yellow means EXCEPTION

In article <775@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> 
> Could some CATS person or whomever explain a little more about what
> the yellow diagnostic color means.  I take it that a 68K exception
> is being generated.  Would this be indicitive of expansion or some
> other hardware generating wild interruputs before apporpriate
> handlers have been set up?

I *think* it indicates that you've just taken a trip through any of
the "exception" vectors.  Interrupts have probably not been enabled
yet.  I'm afraid all you can really tell is that your machine is
broken, no further information can be extracted without something
like a logic analyzer or 68000 "emulator".

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)