| From: | Pekka Sippola |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 11:50:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Startup error colours |
Hello Malvin
On 14-Aug-00, Malvin Wall wrote:
> Hello,
> I will be going down my friends house and he has told me that his old
> A500 will not startup. He told me the colour but that will be no use
> as he is rather colour blind. He is in to computers but would like to
> play some of his old games so idea of 1200 will not be high of his
> list of things to do.
The most common culprit was at least with some batch with dodgy Agnus
sockets a bad contact there. I have one with a cable tie round the chip
holder to keep it together; some chip pushing with other chips is
sometimes needed, too.
Regards
proud owner of A500T powerhouse a�la '91
now cooking with A4000T/233PPC/CVPPC+PIV+CV3D
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