#A2000 crashes!
Been having problems with my recently purchased (used) A2000. On two
separate occasions, the computer crashed randomly. I would come back to it
to find the video output completely black (including the composite video
output) and the computer not doing what it was doing (to the best I could
determine, being that the screen was black).
The first time this happened, I tried to reboot using the three-fingered
salute. This time it booted up with a black screen. So I turned
everything off, took the cpu apart, and reseated all the chips. When I
rebooted, it seemed to be alive. Used it for a while the next day, and
then in the middle of a hard disk backup, it did the same thing. I again
took off the power supply and cards, and poked the chips inthis time paying
particular attention to the buster chip (which I had heard may be
responsible for a black monitor output). Booted again, and no problem…so
far.
Anyone have any idea what caused this? I'm using a Conner CP-340 HD, C=
2090 (non-A) controller, Microbotics 8-up with 2 meg. installed, and also
have a Konica 10.7 floppy on-board. I never experienced this with my A500,
where I used these cards/peripherals in a Subsystem expansion chassis. Oh-
I have the old Agnus chip, kickstart 1.3, and the motherboard is modified
to rev. 4.5 level.
On a slightly related note: the utility "HandyWB", which puts a menu of
executable programs on the title bar, doesn't seem to run on the 2000. It
bows out with an error message something like "HandyWB failed, requires
Workbench 1.2 ver. 33! returncode 20". I've never had this problem with WB
1.3 installed on my A500. Could it be the kickstart 1.3 rom that it's
reacting to?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
+ Phil +