Conference hydra::amiga_v1

5297.0. "A500HD+ Trouble Note" by COMET::BELLMJ () Sat Dec 21 1991 22:30

    HELP! HELP! HELP!
    
    I recently got the A500HD+ from GVP, and for the last three days I have
    been experiencing BAD guru crashes.
    
    When I turn the unit on, it flashes the normal gray warm-up sequence
    and then the power light flashes, and I get FAILURE number
    
    8000 000B  in task  0020 3210
    
    So, I press the left mouse button and get the same thing, over and
    over.  If I disable autobooting, the ROM 2.04 screen comes up very
    well, and I can boot off floppy.  When this screen comes up, I try
    switching to autoboot again, and Crtl-A-A.  I get the Guru.
    
    So, I turned everything off, and waited, turned it back on.  Same
    thing.  I tried turning both on at the same time, Amiga first, and hard
    drive first (shouldn't matter, right?  Each waits for the other?)
    
    I disconnect the hard drive.  The screen comes up fine, I can boot off
    of floppy.  I reconnect the drive, same problem.  Right now I'm
    entering this by disabling autoboot, and booting off floppy.  I still
    have access to the RAM in the drive now, but I can't get into the drive
    because I guess I'd have to have a special floppy with mountlist
    entries, etc.
    
    Help!  Does anyone have this experience?  Do you think it's the GVP? 
    I'm calling them full of flames on Monday, but until them I'm without
    25M of stuff I can't get to.
    
    Please let me know if you have any information...
    Mike

    Mike,

    I've got the same unit and had similar experiences soon after getting
    it. Do you have extra memory in yours? If so, remove the simms and 
    try reseating them. If that doesn't help or you have trouble pulling
    the simms out (they're a pain to get out), reset the jumpers for 0 meg
    and try rebooting. Believe me, I know what you're going thru. 

    -Dom