#4000 crash prone?
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed their 4000 is more crash prone
than any other Amiga they have owned? I realize that the 040 chip and the
copyback cache can cause some problems at times, but even if the copyback
is disabled, the 4000 is tempermental with a lot of software. Most of the
problem is a Guru with a CPU trap of 80000004 (Illegal Instruction), and
the second most frequent Guru is 80000003 (Address Error). If I run
Enforcer to try and see what might be causing the problems, sometimes I
can get enough of the printout before it resets the computer to show that
the input.device is usually the one causing the crash. Maybe this is just
a coiencidence and something else is causing the problem. But it sure
takes a lot of the fun out of the 4000 and at times it makes you want a
030 chip instead. I remember Eric Flom was complaining that his GVP 040
accelerator was having a lot of the same errors, so is it something in the
system software causing problems, or is the 040 unfriendly to all the
Amiga software?
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