DENNIS SMITH wrote:   
      
   >At 10:20 AM on 18 Sep 03, Neil Williams said to Dennis Smith:   
   >   
   >NW> Hi,   
   >...   
   >NW> The CPU, AFAIK, starts reading from zero on whatever it is connected to,   
   >NW> so it effectively control itself.   
   >   
   > DS> Well, I would like to determine a component/device first. Let's look at   
   > DS> that CTRL+(L)Amiga+(R)Amiga. What's the eletrical equivalent of these   
   > DS> keystrokes? How is a reset carried out by a device. When I turn on the   
   >...   
   >NW> The reset is by software, at least on the keyboard controller side.   
   >...   
   >NW> Hence, it's the power LED you want to see blink when you reset by C-A-A.   
   >NW> If it doesn't blink the problem is in the area of the CPU (when my   
   >NW> original CS-PPC died, the LED never blinked and acted the same whether   
   >NW> the 4000 had the failed CPU card installed or not at all!).   
   >   
   >  Right now, I'm not getting no reset or any change in the power LED.   
   >  It seems to me that a hardware RESET causes the power LED change. That's   
   >  the circuit that needs checking.   
   >[...]   
   >NW> It's the power LED you want to see flash. Even a perpetual guru would be   
   >NW> a start :)   
   >   
   >  =:o "...perpetual guru..."! Actually the KS bootup screen qualifies with   
   >     it's graphical perpetual floppy disk going in the drive. I'm trying   
   >     to get to that point! It's CPU or it Set/Reset circuit with new KSrom.   
   >      
   >   
   >NW> If you determine that the fault is on the motherboard, and everything   
   >NW> else is fine, get another 2000. They go for very little on eBay. You can   
   >NW> even then sell the broken one to get some money back (people will buy   
   >NW> any old crap on eBay ;-)   
   >   
   >The A2K we're dicussing came from E-Bay for exactly that purpose - backup!   
   >Since my PPS ZEUS won't upgrade to OS3.1, so the backup was used. Worked   
   >damn good for about a year+. :)    
   >   
   >I trying to decide which system to continue with KS2.05 & WB2.1 or KS3.1 &   
   >OS3.9. Which is the more classical?    
   >   
   >The AmigaOne is setup for OS3.1. I fiddled the Emergency-Disks Startups   
   >to boot the CDs either OS3.5 or OS3.9 in UAE. :) So, I not a crisis of    
   >being without an Amiga. Now that's poor when your Amigaless! =:o    
   >   
   >I would like to spend time & resources on AmigaOne. That's why I got it!!   
   >Can you recommend a SCSI contoller for the A1. They're not cheap, but it's   
   >difficult to determine what works with linux? Someone mentioned that even   
   >if I had SCSI, linux UAE doesn't have the UAESCSI driver like WinUAE. So,   
   >that crinkles that plan.   
   >   
   >The Frieden brothers are back talking in the AmigaWorld.net forums! OS4 is   
   >just around the corner! They're short a graphic.libraries rewrite from   
   >booting up OS4 on AmigaOne PPC native. Sounds good! :)   
   >   
   >     
   >   
   Have you tried cold-booting from a bootable floppy? Could be your hard    
   drive is locked up and you're   
   only seeing a dimmed power led.   
      
      
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