Hi Niel,   
      
   At 11:51 AM on 13 Sep 03, Neil Williams said to Dennis Smith:   
      
   NW> Hi,   
   NW>  On Monday August 11 2003, Dennis Smith said to ALL:   
      
    DS>         If there ever was a reason for getting an AmigaOne, I got one!!   
    DS> My '020 A2K died last night. Does anyone remember what the purple   
    DS> screen of doom signifies? I know it's a motherboard failure, but what?   
      
   NW> I had something similar on an A500 - try pressing down on each of the   
   NW> socketed chips, they may have worked loose.   
      
   NW> I think we can say that at least your CPU is working (the blinking power   
   NW> LED).   
      
   I even checked with a meter with 4.5 to 5 volts;same on KSrom. It's pin#31   
   on both chips. So, who signals the CPU to do its jmp start vector?   
   KSrom was swapped to a good one-- no change. BTW, this A2K was stock and   
   came from Ebay. Clean machine. Ebay stuff & SoftHut stuff went into it.   
      
   ...   
      
   NW> One option is to swap components between these two A2000s - either to   
   NW> locate the fault, or to bring your old machine up to the spec of the   
   NW> other one :)   
      
   Well, I would like to determine a component/device first. Let's look at   
   that CTRL+(L)Amiga+(R)Amiga. What's the eletrical equivalent of these   
   keystrokes? How is a reset carried out by a device. When I turn on the   
   A2K, what events & devices actually tell KS to jump to Startup? Whaaaah,   
   my toy is broke! I don't know how it works? :-\   
      
    DS> I'm thinking of letting SoftHut do the repairs. Should I fix or not   
    DS> will depend on estimate. Any info will helpful...   
      
   NW> As you're getting some action from the machine, it sounds like only one   
   NW> component is bad. I'd expect a repair to be cheap(ish). I swapped the   
   CIAs around (there are two) didn't change anything. Normal is to read a   
   one flash 'caps lock' light at startup and I get that. I'll check this one   
   out after shut down.=:D   
      
   I was there the other night and could not find their repair policy; read   
   it a long time ago. They may have dropped the service! Oops, time is not   
   looking good for the old Amigas.    
      
      
   NW>  Neil Williams, neil@zeusdev.co.uk - Uni, ug00026 at sees bangor ac uk   
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    This is kind ironic my A2K WB2.1 is Zeus powered! =:o   
   The infamous PPS Zeus '040. :Dennis    
       
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