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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: curtis on December 26, 2012, 06:41:12 PM
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Okay guys, here's one for you.
I got a snow day from work and am working on my on-going project of restoring a Bodega Bay. I FINALLY got a new power cord to run to the A500 and was testing it with just the power and NOT hooked up to the Bodega Bay.
Turned it on and I got a dead screen (black/blank) and 10 short blinks and 1 long blink!
The motherboard is a rev 5 totally unmodified.
Checked with an 8A mobo and it boots right up!
All my tech references only go to 4 blinks.
What the heck is 10 short and 1 long blinks!?!?!?!?
Curtis
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A blinking power LED just means that the software crashed. After a crash the LED blinks ten times, then the computer restarts. If it crashes during initialisation, it does this in loop: crash, blink, reset, crash, blink reset, ...
So your "one long blink" does mean nothing but that the computer restarts.
Usually the cause of the crash is shown by the color on the display (red, green, yellow). A black screen does not have a specific meaning. It might mean that something is dead on the motherboard so that it cannot display anything. Or that it crashes in a phase of initialisation which does not set a color.