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#A2620 Problem

    28-Oct-90 19:08:42
Sb: #A2620 Problem
Fm: Roger C. Van Duyn 72437,3536
To: all
A2620 board boots less than 10 percent of the time on my system even when Supra Wordsync hard card is disconnected from the power supply and removed from its slot. In fact this happens when all cards and peripherals are removed from the Amiga. The Amiga and all peripherals work properly at all times when the A2620 is removed. On those occasions when the A2620 boots, there is an error message displayed saying "Autoconfigure out of memory space. However the system will continue to boot up despite the error message to either the 68000 mode or the 68020 mode, it doesn't seem to matter. After a successful cold boot with the A2620, the system will survive a warm reboot most of the time. And the avail command shows the full 7 megs available. However, most of the time the hard drive will freeze. When the A2620 won't do a cold boot, reseating the board in its slot sometimes helps and sometimes it doesn't. In fact once I thought everything was working properly, but after I put the Amiga's cover back on the machine would no longer boot. The A2620 card is apparently good since I took it to AmiComp and it worked on another Amiga with no apparent problems. All in all this problem reminds me of the time I added memory to my old A1000 and it wouldn't work until I had the pal chips grounded. Any ideas? Roger