15 Dec
2001
15 Dec
'01
1:49 p.m.
Hi,
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Dec 14, 16:16, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
In particular, do any of you have familiarity
with
systems that flash the on or power light as an
indicattor, sopecifiecally, of a power supply
problem?
The only thing I can think of that's *designed* to do something like that
is an SGI Indy; if you power one up and it can't even run the the code in
the PROM, it flashes the power light (which is a two-colour LED). The
usual cause id that there's no (recognisable) RAM at all in it. Probably
not relevant to a PR1ME. From what I've noticed, the SparcStation 1 flashes
it's power LED when
doing a selftest, but I'm not near the box, so I
can't check :&)
And as Jeff said - Amigas flash the power LED. The flash is between low
and high intensity, and it's actually an indication of the status of the
audio filter :&) IIRC, bright is off and dimmer is on. And yes, it flashes
before you get a Guru Meditation (kickstart 1.3 and below) or Software
Failure (kickstart 2+). Gives you a chance to press right mouse button and
fire up ROMwhack :&)
-- Matt
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