| From: | Rodrigo Saez Rojas |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 21:11:49 |
| Subject: | Re: Busted A1200s |
You could get a new motherboard for 100 dm at Vesalia in germany!!
Bye
Rod
---------- Original Message ----------
>Replying to Andrew...
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> I've had a rather nasty thing happen...
>>
>> First of all, I was on the internet when genesis suddenly went
>> offline, although the modem was still connected. I then found that
>> both the serial port and disk drive wouldn't work! I turned it off,
>> and back on for a bit and it worked again for a few minutes, but then
>> it died again.
>>
>> To test some of the hardware, I ran a few demos on it. The sound
>> didn't work on just about all of them. Busted CIA right?
>>
>Afraid not... sounds as if Paula has handed her notice in as she deals with
>disk and serial matters and a few other things as well as sound.
>> I then decided to leave it off for a bit (over night) to see if it'd
>> work again in the morning.
>>
>> When I tried using it again, it wouldn't boot at all!
>>
>>
>Oh dear.
>> I've now had to swap all the bits with my old A1200 which has
>> problem: alot of the time it won't boot, the clock won't tick
>> (causing problems with the wait command and Genesis) and kboard
>> interface seems busted too, as it keeps printing out random chrs,
>> just 88ok 1h't happen' when I don't''''''''bother going back
>> and''''deleting the erro2s !!!!~!!
>>
>> Although it could be the keyboard, I'm gonna try the other one...
>>
>Nope... I still think it's Paula...
>>
>> Anyway, apart from buying another A1200, is there anything I can do to
>> fix them?
>Do you have a decent electronics repair man nearby? It could be dodgy
>joints, but equally, it could just be old age. It would probably be cheaper
>to buy a new S/H A1200. My local CC knocked them out for less than a tenner
>when I bought the last five they had.
>Sorry I can't help more.
>Kind regards,
>Mick.
>It would seem to me that the powers that be
>Keep themselves in splendour and security...
>
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