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#Strange Hardware Problem

    05-Nov-92 00:56:42
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
Steve, Ok…well, Betty pointed me to her file that described the bootup sequence and included the meaning of the colors. It's in LIB 12 as BOOTCO.LHA and I'd suggest you go get it (it's a very quick download, only 2K long) and read it, it'll explain it much better than I can here in the message base. Basically…if the screen is truely yellow, it's saying that the 68000 found an error before the error trapping mechanism (GURU) was in place. In other words…bad boot code, or flakey RAM where the boot code is loaded. Don