From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Keep Me From DESTROYING My Amiga
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:12:14 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan25.224200.22665@engr.uark.edu>, mdg1@engr.uark.edu (Michael D
. Glover) writes:
>I have posted on this subject several times, and I am just about ready to trash
>my A2000HD.  The problem is this:
>
>  I have been having inexplainable system crashes for about a year now.  The
>  guru's are usually something like 8000 0004.  The crashing usually begins
>  about 30mins. after I first boot up and then continues at random.  I have
>  had the system crash in TERM (all versions), JRCOMM, MultiPlot, and every
>  other program I have (even during bootup, sometimes...)
>
>  I am running 2.04 (it crashed before I upgraded from 1.3 as well).  I have a
>  2091 HD Controller/40 Mbyte Quantum.  I use Toolmanager2.0, NickPrefs,
>  DirWork1.62?, FracBlank, and the above mentioned progs.  I have a 2088
>  bridgeboard as well (using older Janus software), although I have tried
>  leaving out the binddrivers command in my startup and it makes no difference,
>  as far as the crashing goes... I have even tried using the system after
>  booting up from the original WB disks to no avail. (Which is what makes me
>  want to believe it is a hardware problem...)
>
>  I have taken my machine to the nearest service center and they said that
>  they ran a complete diagnostic and couldn't find a thing wrong with the
>  thing.  (Of course I told them that it takes it awhile sometimes and to let
>  it go awhile, but I doubt they let it go long enough.... personally, I don't
>  think that they knew what they were doing...)  I have 2 MEG of memory on the
>  2091 card and all memory test say that the mem. checks out.  I have used both
>  the program that comes w/the 2091 as well as the PD MemCheck program.
>
>  Would someone please help me with this?  I desperately need my machine to do
>  school work.  Not to mention the fact that a guru every min. when you are
>  trying to do anything is VERY annoying.  Any help is GREATLY appreciated.  I
>  have seen a few other people w/the same prob, and we would really like to
>  have control of our machines again....    HELP!
>
>
>
>
>--
>--------------------------------////-------------------------------------------
> Michael D. Glover  |   University/of Arkansas   | "Build a machine any fool
>                    |         ////at             |  can use and only fools
> mdg1@engr.uark.edu |   \\\  Fayetteville        |  will use it." --- Murphy
>                    |    \\\////                 |
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>

I had a similar problem with a 500.  The problem is/was with the hard drive.
I have a seagate and it has a sticktion(sp) problem.  The lubricant on the
surfacce gels a bit and the drive cannot spin up.  This cause random errors
during boot or program run id disk accesses happen.  This is/was a problem
with seagate brand drives, particularly the five inch variety.

Just a WAG.

George Bluhm
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