I just thought I lost my A1. Lucky though it was not a major thing.


The symptomes were:

The Amiga would not display anything, even at the very start of the booting process.

Then the hard drive would stay lit for a few minutes.

Then nothing.


The solution:

Replace the little watch battery.


Everything is running fine now! I tell you that it was a scary experience and all sorts of thoghts were going through my mind. I thought the graphics card went, because I had just finished getting it into the new mode just as I wanted. Then I thought what if something on the board broke that broke the graphics card slot.

Anyway, just wanted to post it in case someone else had the same problem.

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@nzv58l

Yeah, it's scray when you suddenly be placed in the dark.

Some text would be nice stating
"Hey, your battery has worn out, get a new one, damnit!"
or something like this!

Would this be possible?
What happens on a PeeCee when the battery has leaked or is worn out?

edit: spoiling

Last edited by Raziel on 18-Feb-2006 at 06:22 PM.

Hi @nzv58l

->"Anyway, just wanted to post it in case someone else had the same problem.

Yes, the 'suspended animation bootup'; I get it all the time. I don't
believe it's battery. Updates 1&2 - never; #3 it started - 1 in every
four bootups; #4 about every other bootup. Some ready signal is missing in
UBOot or AGP. A warm reset continues my cold bootup sometimes. I think
ambient temperatures have something to do with it!

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Thanks for the feedback nzv58l
Will prolly prove handy!

Rude!

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@Snuffy

Mine boots all the time. No problems ever since I replaced that nasty battery.

Perhaps your battery is getting low, or did you load OS4 on a blank formated disk?

OS 4 has been rock stable now. I have had very few problems with it. Primarily using it with AWeb on this site, but I have been stretching it out a bit on some other things too.

@nzv58l

Buy an extra battery.

My AmigaOne setup eats one every 100 to 110 days.

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@ggw

Nutts, you must get through some batteries!!
Ive bought some here just in case but aint had to change it yet and ive had the machine for nearly 2 years now!!

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@ggw

Quote:

My AmigaOne setup eats one every 100 to 110 days.

That doesn't sound right.
Do you switch it on and off often?

My A1XE is turned on most of the time, I've changed battery once in almost 3 years.

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@ggw

Same as Tomazkid here as well. Finally changed my battery about a month ago. Worked fine after that.

A1 has stopped working for me comepletely now though, since a few weeks. Haven't had time to look into it much but the changing the battery doesn't do anything.

Maybe I finally fried the cpu? After a couple of years at 1066mhz? Maybe it's something else.

Anyway, coming to Amigaworld on the pc isn't any fun so I'm catching up on other stuff atm (including sleep).

Would like to try out Vista Pro that someone said works with OS4 upd 4 though!

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@Raziel

Quote:

What happens on a PeeCee when the battery has leaked or is worn out?

The only thing that happens on a pc, is that the clock wont be kept and the bios settings revert to default whenever you power it off completly. It works fine otherwise.

I really do not understand why an AmigaONE eats batteries this fast compared to a PC. The battery on the PC lasts for many many years before it has to be swapped.

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@tomazkid

I have not overclocked mine either. To me it doesnt seem worth the risk. I really do not think I would even notice a 10% or even a 20% increase in speed.

I sure hope mine doesn´t eat batteries. Perhaps he is using a cheap or even the wrong battery. Try getting a name brand name to see if that helps. If you get one exactly like the one that is in there, it could be a cheap one as it seems like many A1 owners have had to replace them already.

@Tomas
This makes me wonder who the 'genius' was that designed the AmigaOne to die whenever a $.97
battery fails? Utterly stupid!

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@stychokiller

Aparently some of the old Macs did that too...

But it is a major fault if you ask me, which of course you didn't, but I'm telling you anyway!

Mine has a habit of being turned on from cold, just sitting there with the HDD light flashing every 4 seconds or so, pull the plug out of the wall, turn it off plug it back in and it powers up, Not good.

Needless to say all the setting are kept, but do you all recon that changing the battery will fix this? And what do you mean $.97 battery, they're all about 3 quid here!

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S    9am->10pm (except if I work on Saturday)
S    9am->2pm 8pm->11pm

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It wouldn't be an Amiga if you didn't have to ask the condition of the battery when you buy it. At least they don't leak.

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@ggw

But where the feck do you buy a brand new battery from ?

I don't recall ever seeing them advertised on the likes of Ebuyer, Overclockers .. etc

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Do a google search for "cr2032". But most computer or electronic stores should have them in stock. Radio Shack carries them here in the US so you can find one in about any town.

@Herewegoagain

Thanks for number.

Its ironic that close by is a huge RS (Radio Shack) Components hub but the only Tandy/Radio Shack shop in Peterborough closed down several years ago !!

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@The_Editor

try maplin:

Maplin

They have 1 or 2 in stock it seems

Mark

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