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Article #12791Re: Weird problem with SetCPU FASTROM and A2620
From: Dave Thomas QA
Date: Mon, 22 May 1989 13:46
Date: Mon, 22 May 1989 13:46
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In article <3838@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> I am having a weird problem with SetCPU 1.4 and an A2620 with 2 meg of
> 32-bit RAM. There is also an A2090 and an ASDG 8-MI with 4 MB of RAM
> in the system (a 2000, but you guessed that, didn't you...)
>
> If I do the 'setcpu fastrom,' things will work OK for a while, 'rombash'
> will tell me that it's a bit more than twice as fast, but after a while,
> the system will weird out and start autorepeating characters that I type,
> so if I type 'setcpu,' I might get 'sssssssssssssseeeetttttttttccccppppuuuuuu.'
>
> Any ideas?
This is a problem on A2000's with original keyboards (the ones with the
small function keys). Dave H is/was working on a new setcpu which would
patch the system to keep this from happening, but I don't know what the
status of this is.
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Dave
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Dave Thomas, Commodore Amiga Test Engineering
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!thomas From: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Weird problem with SetCPU FASTROM and A2620 Message-ID: <6944@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 22 May 89 13:46:35 GMT References: <3838@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 25