----- Original Message ----- From: "David Vohs" <netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:04 AM Subject: Amiga 2000 help/info needed. Normal boot up color sequences: a.. dark gray initial hardware & cpu test passed o.k. b.. light gray initial software passed o.k. c.. white ram tested, system starts up. Error occurred when screen color is: a.. red rom error, replace or re-seat kickstart rom(s) b.. green chip ram error c.. blue custom chip(s) error d.. yellow 68000 detected error before software trapped it, check coldcapture, expect a guru e.. blank screen whilst running & resulting in a1000 kickstart prompt, indicating that programmable logic array chips are being overloaded, and are of the inferior type Did you pop the cover off to see what's going on inside? If you have a processor upgrade board that's not installed correctly (or has failed) you will not boot. A leaking battery could have eaten into the motherboard also causing damage. While your taking a peek inside for loose cards make a note of all devices plugged into the machine along with the BIOS chip revisions and motherboard revisions, these will come handy later on when you are looking for OS disks.

Well they're old hat to me, having four of them, along with other Amigas. You need a Workbench disk, probably WB 1.3. Does the picture just show a stationary hand and a blue outline of the disk? That means you have Kickstart 1.3 ROM installed. If you have an animation, of a 3-d disk sliding in, you have WB 2.04 or higher. For maximum use, KS 3.1 is reccommended. There is NO hard disk that is stock -- you'll need an A2091 SCSI card and a SCSI drive, which I happen to have several extra, along with Ethernet cards. Contact me off-list and I'll see what I can do for you. Gary Hildebrand ST. Joseph, MO