Amiga Hardware
Hello everyone,
I have a question for anyone with hardware knowledge of the Amiga:
the past few weeks I have been experiencing flakey operation of the
keyboard, gameport 0, and the parallel port. The symptoms include the
following:
o Occasionally the keyboard will get stuck in repeat mode. o
Sometimes pressing a key on the keyboard results in a completely
different character being displayed on the screen. o Mouse
works fine in port 0; however, when a joystick is plugged
into the port, the only signal that works is the fire button. o
Files dumped to the parallel port (printer device actually) are not
printed correctly on the printer… The actual output is
consistent
as far as I can tell. For instance, #include is always printed as
#kncnwfg, and NULL is printed as NWNN. (The correct printer is
selected in prefs).
I took the system in to have it repaired, and was told that there
is nothing wrong with it. I am not about to spend $64 to be told that
elswhere… Any replies would be greatly appreciated.
My guess is that CIA-A has gone south on me, but after looking over
the A2000 schematics and reading about the hardware, I am not so sure.
Thanks for listening,
Kraig Kasey – 76300,1511
Oh yeah, I am running 2.04 if that makes a difference.