Yet another new Amiga user.

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I finally snagged my first Amgia after many, many years of waiting.  Well, actually, it sorta fell into my lap.  It looks like a pretty nice box: an A2000 with a GVP Combo 030 (40 MHz, 16 MB RAM) and a Supra RAM card which was recently upgraded to 8 MB.  Now, if you ask me, 25 MB is a little skimpy for a 68030.  I mean my Mac SE/30 has 32 MB.  

The problem is this: I've waited so long that I've forgotten why I wanted it.  Well, my first task is to get it working reliably.

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It looks like it is a nice machine, but I have to get some bugs out of it.  It likes crash randomly after 30 minutes or so.  This is giving me fond memories of running Windows 95.  

What I have seen in those thirty minute breaks impresses me.  Software seems to be lean and fast and the multitasking is great.  I have OS 3.9 on this critter, its loading some of the toys while I'm using it, and I'm not seeing a performace hit.  Whee!  But I suppose you already know about that ...

Anyhow, back to searching for the problem.  Troubleshooting an unfamiliar machine is very difficult.

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Thanks for the tips.  I've pretty much tried them, but not in a very systematic way: I removed the Supra card, crash; I replaced the Supra then removed the three SIMMs, crash; but I didn't ensure the crash was from the same problem.  My plan is to repeat what you suggested, but try to give each step a day or so.  But I really want to remove the GVP card, and see if the problems pop up with a stock systems.

Anyhow, I opened up a thread on the hardware forum.  It's probably more appropriate.