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A1200 crashes a lot when it hasn't been on for very long
« on: January 28, 2012, 06:33:47 PM »
Title says it all really.  During the first 10-15 minutes or so after I turn my Amiga on from cold, it crashes quite often.  Sometimes if I'm testing my own code I think it must be something I did wrong but it will also crash in Deluxe Paint as well.  I don't know what chip it is (CPU?  graphics?  chipram?), crashes are usually a Guru or a lockup followed by a reset.  I'm using an Apollo 060 card.  It had a really bad time limbering up this afternoon, I'm worried it might be going the way of all electronics.

Has anyone else ever had this problem?
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Re: A1200 crashes a lot when it hasn't been on for very long
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 06:55:12 PM »
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Could be a lot of things:

Power supply - The 060 draws less power than the 040, but such an expansion is still too much for a vanilla supply, especially iwith a HD installed. Are you using a higher wattage one?

It's an old A500 brick rather than the newer A1200 stock PSU.

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Dirt - not saying your machine is filthy, but grime and muck always gets into connectors. Have you removed the card and the RAM, blasted any dust away, cleaned the connectors and put everything back as it was?

I should probably go over it with the air duster at some point, the floppy drive was playing up the other day as well, I blew in it and the disk was no longer unreadable :/

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Heat - While the 060 is generally cooler than the 040, some XC models ran pretty hot. Is your system sufficiently ventilated?

The room is fairly cool, there is no radiator in here and it is Scotland in the winter!  If it was heat I'd have expected the problem to get worse the longer the machine was switched on, but the opposite is the case.  After it's been on for 15 minutes or so it's fine.

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Age - drying/leaky capacitors, dull solder joints, flat/leaky batteries. These are all sources of potential instability.

I can take a look... not had the case open in a long time now though, but I was meaning to clean it some day so maybe now's my chance.
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Re: A1200 crashes a lot when it hasn't been on for very long
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 08:30:07 PM »
Hmm!  I'd better try this!
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