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

[save2600]

So you no longer have an accelerator w/ fast ram and you're using that pre-configured Workbench or AmigaSYS install? I'm guessing there's something there that requires fast ram. Or a patch conflict in your User-Startup/startup-sequence looking for something fancier. Holding in CTRL-A A for a few seconds, on most accelerator cards forces the system in 68000 mode. Is that what you're talking about?

AFAIK on a regular, non-accelerated A1200, all CTRL-A A does is resets your system. Holding down both mouse buttons upon startup gets you to the early startup screen. If your computer is no longer booting and have 3.1 installed on the HD, but still doesn't come up, do you see the Kickstart screen at all?

[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

[save2600]

Hmm... ever since installing that Blizzard 2060, whenever I do a reset, I'm greeted with a rainbow explosion of colours (amiga video out that is). There's probably something similar in that Workbench Lite program...

[CLS2086]

Hi,
what is the setpatch rev ?

[save2600]

I'm using setpatch version 44.38