...but luckily I managed to wake it up again. (Phew!) I was just
reading mail when I heard some disturbing noises from the Falcon and
everything went black/dead. I switched it off and on again, still
dead. Panic!
A few hours later I removed the cover and had a look inside.
Everything looked fine, but just to be sure I unplugged and plugged
again some cables. Switched the Falcon on, and it worked.
Because of the crackling noises when it died I immedielately suspected
the PSU, but it's nothing wrong with it. But last night I experienced
something similar again; crackling noises. But the Falcon didn't die!
The keyboard and mouse went bananas, and the crackling noises came
from the speaker! So there's definelately something wrong with my
keyboard/PC-Keys.
One possibility is that the 32MHz oscillator in the Falcon is bad,
which might explain the total blackness I experienced yesterday. My
theory is that it "died" yesterday, but started to work again with the
difference that it's now not entirely stable. If this is the case the
keyboard-ACIA will not get a proper clock and the symptoms I described
above (mad keyboard/mouse) will appear.
Does this make sense? When I get the time I'll replace the 48MHz-clock
on the Nemesis with a 36MHz (Still doesn't work properly in 40MHz) and
install a 500KHz-clock (actually a 32MHz oscillator + ripplecounter) I
used with my old speeder and see if things improves.
/*
** Jo Even Skarstein
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~josk/
**
** beer - maria mckee - atari falcon - babylon 5
*/
Received on on. okt. 01 1997 - 11:11:12 CEST