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Offline lauri.lotvonenTopic starter

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A600 booting slowly ?
« on: April 24, 2011, 03:17:31 PM »
Hi guys.

I have this problem, if you can call it that way :) :

I was really stupid and tired (the normal me) and plugged my video cable accidentally to the serial port of my a600.  Then I turned on the power to notice what I had just done, and immediately turned the machine off.

The serial port had one pin bent so it touched the "shield" of the serial port.
I twisted it back to normal of course and powered the system again.
Just a black screen, and caps lock light on, no blinks.

I thought "oh crap, what have I just done" and left the power on for a while (about 2 min's) and suddenly the system booted fine to KS 2.05.

Now when I cold start the machine it always takes about 30 sec. to get the KS screen. I would like to know what is causing this and will it destroy the A600 if I dont do something to the slow booting ?
A1200, Blizzard 1260 + 64mb, Indivision AGA, Subway USB, 8GB CF-HD, PCMCIA network card, OS 3.9.
And a couple of A600\'s :).
 

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Re: A600 booting slowly ?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2011, 09:34:46 AM »
Thanks for the info Cammy.
I'm also afraid when the caps are going to really give me trouble. I checked all the caps but could not see any leaks anyhow...

But this did not happen before I messed up with the video cable.
The world of classic Amiga's is full of wonders :).
A1200, Blizzard 1260 + 64mb, Indivision AGA, Subway USB, 8GB CF-HD, PCMCIA network card, OS 3.9.
And a couple of A600\'s :).