Hardware Inconsistencies (a little scary again for me!)

[3246251196]

just left my amiga 1200 on there. booted into WB and just left it whilst on PC. now, i left it for about 10-15mins and all of a sudden the CLICK noises from the DFs stopped - the computer FROZE.

also, when i was changing the date on WB this happened.

i am getting random freeze ups (this time it has nothing to do with WHDLoad / TCPIP stack)

just pure freeze ups (though when it boots i SOMETIMES get the SOFTWARE FAILURE screen)

what is this!???

thanks

[amigakit]

Faulty accelerator/RAM maybe?

Try filling the RAM disk with files from the hard disk until full and then remove the entire contents- does the Amiga crash?

Boot the Amiga from the Workbench disk and monitor it- do you still get crashes?

[3246251196]

i havent tried those yet AKit. BUT, i left it on for so long yesterday and no problem

do you think it is OVERHEATING?

[AmigaMance]

 I can only say that random freeze ups can be caused by:
- OverHeating: Touch all of the ICs/Heatsinks of your Amiga system with your finger to see if this is the case.
- Dust/dirt: With the help of little moist can produce short-circuits.
- Flaky software: Remove all of your installed patches and commodities and see if this helps
- Not enough Power from your PSU: This can be a real issue if you have a lot of devices connected to your system. Remove as many as you can and see if stability improves.
- Bad connection between a card or a IC and the motherboard: Remove them, clean the contacts and re-plug them.
 Well, this is all i can think of right now. Let us know if any of these helps.
 

[amigagr]

check if acelarator,ram,ide cables are fitted ok. change the ram module if you have any spare.

[3246251196]

i do have 2 spare 4Mb modules. i might just leave it until tomorrow though. leave it on for a long time. personally i think its OHeating. i keep it on for to much (and redundantly quite frankly!)

[amigakit]

A quick easy test is to totally fill then totally purge the RAM disk- this will test the integrity of the memory and a lot of the accelerator functions.

If you get that test out of the way, you can start looking in other areas.

[3246251196]

okay. i will leave it till either later or tomorrow. i will fill the RAM DISK then empty it again. see what happens. i am confident in this acc' card though tbh. to re-iterate, i think its OHEating

[Matt_H]

What kind of accelerator are you using? 040s and 030s at 50MHz can get VERY hot.

[3246251196]

well this is just a 1220 at the mo. @ 28MHz CPU/FPU 4Mb FM

[adz]

What revision motherboard do you have?

[motrucker]

LISTEN TO Amigakit!!

[orange]

aminet has several real memory test programs, if you think it might be the cause..

[3246251196]

okay. i filled up RAM disk until it said FULL. then i took out everything and moved it all to the "desktop". there was not a problem. so, fill-flush test worked fine. i rebooted. left it "clicking" (just boot to WB but no actions) and AGAIN it freezes.

when i reboot though it does say SOFTWARE ERROR (AND, this wasnt happening before yesterday. Also, this has all started to happen since i was working with Theme Park AGA!)

do you think its SWARE?

[CLS2086]

what is your power supply ?