#2386sx diagnostic beeps?
Can anywone tell me where I can find out what is meant by the series of beeps
my 2386sx board makes when it boots? I had gotten everything on the
Bridgeboard (except for MS Windows 3.1 not recognizing the AMouse mouse
emulation) working and was in the middle of an AutoPilot session (trying to
find out about AMouse and Windows 3.1) when the Amiga crashed _hard_
(immediately to a black screen, without any warning). After a few anxious
moments when the Amiga failed to boot (nothing but a blank screen on power-up
por reset), I checked all the expansion boards and found that my GVP Spectrum
28/24 board was not firmly seated in its slot. The Spectrum board was
immediately adjacent to the 2386 slot and probably got jarred loose during
installation of the Bridgeboard.
Reseating the Spectrum brought the Amiga back to life, but the Bridgeboard
refused to boot, and any Janus program launched from the User-Startup file
would not return and would cause the Amiga's boot process to hang. All the
2386 board will do is issue a series of beeps, instead of the single beep it
gave before when things went okay. The series of beeps starts with a single
long beep followed by three short beeps, a pause and then another three short
beeps. I assume that this is some error message from the Bridgeboard, but I
could find no reference to them in the 2386 docs.
Is there any hope for reviving my Bridgeboard, or have I fatally fried it? Any
guidance welcomed (or, if it looks like I've totalled the 2386, a pointer to
buying another one on reasonable terms would be welcome).
Darron