Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!grr 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 but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)