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From: "Fernando Martins" <F4MMART@PB1.PacBell.COM>
Subject: Non-AGA A4000
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Comment: SR F4MMART 02/14/95 09:33:56 PB1
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>Strange.. Yes, I had this problem with my A4000 a couple of years ago..
>A4000/25Mhz with Fastlane (SCSI-2) and two HDs.. I don't remember exactly
>how I fixed it (it was OK after a while), but it seems it kept booting >into
ENHANCED CHIP SET instead of AGA... :( > >What you could try is when you
reboot, hold down both mouse button and >select AGA in the Early startup
screen (or whatever.. ;) )
:) As if I didn't try that! I even thought that there was some way to
PERMANENTLY choose a graphic mode and I discovered it by accident :)
> Well I cant say what is wrong but from the description of the problem > a
few things come to mind > 1) Reinstall the Amiga OS. (you may have trampled
some stuff) > 2) Forget about SysInfo you may end up worrying needlessly.
OK, thank you and all of those who answered me. You got it right, it was a
software problem! :)
I can explain what happened:
Throughout my experiments, I started to put comments in some
'startup-sequence' instructions to see if the problem was from there (I had a
problem with my df0: drive, It was not connected, and when the computer looked
for PC0: it hanged up!!!). I thought the the instructions I put comments on
were useless... I was wrong :)
The major things were:
Iprefs ... That's why I couldn't use the preferences. I thought Iprefs was
some kind of 'NickPrefs' or other kind of shareware program that was messing
all the thing. I realized that it is standard and it allows you to use the
preferences
The other one was 'SetPatch'... I heard that this instruction fixed some bugs
in the operating system, but I didn't expect to be bugs THIS BIG... If you
don't run 'SetPatch', you lose the AGA mode!!! Strangely, if you boot with 'No
Startup-Sequence' the AGA mode works normally. Oh... And without the AGA mode
I lost half the power of the Warp Engine...!!! And that's it... Two miserable
instructions that made me lose a whole weekend. BTW, this stupid problem was
fixed in 10 minutes!!!
Now, some funny (annoying :) ) things:
I had to close my A4000 more than a dozen times!!!
Some of them because: I forgot to turn on the master-jumper in the IDE drive
and it didn't boot up; I forgot to move the jumper inside the A4000 from NTSC
to PAL; and last but not least, when I was going to screw the screws in place,
I found out that I left the screwdriver inside the A4000, somewhere near the
drives and the Power!!!
Thanks for everything!
___ _____ Fernando Martins
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