Ctrl A-A Diagnostic Screen

[AndyC]

Hi all...

Having recently stripped down and sold off most of my Amiga expansions, I'm now back down to a standard A1200 with 2.1Gb hard disk.

It's heartbreaking...

Now, it's been about 12 years since I had this particular setup, and since that time I've had a Blizzard A1230 Mk4 and a Blizzard A1260 with various RAM configurations.

Problem is, each of the above 2 cards have their own particular diagnostic screen when you push the Ctrl A A keys (flashing colours and such like...)

Now that there isn't an expansion fitted, I was expecting the Ctrl A A screen to revert back to the original standard grey flash.

Except, now when I hold down the Ctrl A A keys, I get a very funky, and rather worrying messy/ noisy colour screen - until, that is, I let go of the keys and everything seems fine.

I had to totally strip down my Workbench install, so went with Classic Workbench "Lite". I'm wondering if it has anything to do with that?

Anyhow, any help would be appreciated!

Cheers,
AndyC

[AndyC]

Hi there...

The machine boots up fine, and runs happily.

I'm really only talking about a peculiar screen I get when resetting - something I don't recall seeing "back in the day" when it was only a basic unexpanded Amiga.

The Classic Workbench Lite set-up is very basic, with only a few add ons present.

I have WB3.1 and KS3.1 installed.

I was contemplating putting a basic install of WB on, without any of the extras. Nothing runs from HD anymore anyway as I only have 2MB RAM!

Cheers,
AndyC