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- From: madmaxx@mailhost.cyberhighway.net (Marv Birkinbine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 problems
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 22:02:27 GMT
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- References: <tadahiro.kubota-0803960839440001@f11kmac1.f11k.f.rd.honda.co.jp>
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- >Hi! This is Tadahiro Kubota
-
- the first thing to check is the ribbon cable on the floppy drive
- as often when somone installs a card in the A1200 trap door it pushes up
- agenst the ribbon cable and pushes it part of the way out of the socket
- this is a 90% fix
-
- marv
-
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-
- >> I recently got an A1200 (& A500) for $100. The A1200 has MBX1200 card
- >> with fpu and 4mb ram. It also has an internal hard drive. It came
- >> with a 1942 monitor and lots of disks. It was a good deal but here is
- >> the problem--the A1200 boots fine off of the harddrive but will not
- >> boot any floppy disk. I get an icon that says ???? for the name. One
- >> time, using boot options, I disabled all of the other devices except
- >> df0:, switched to original chipset, and cpu cache off. When I told it
- >> to boot (no disk in the drive) the floppy drive made a click then I got
- >> a message no disk in the drive. I put in a bootable disk, it booted up
- >> to a certain point (workbench came up) then it started saying tracks
- >> were unreadable (the disk works fine in my original A500 btw). I have
- >> tried this again many times but it doesn't work now (the drive still
- >> makes a click sound). I have tried an external drive but I get the
- >> same results (the external drive works ok with my A500). So do I have
- >> a bad chip, or possibly a bad drive? I am currently able to use it in
- >> a limited fashion thru the serial port (again the hd works ok) and for
- >> $100 it was a good deal (2 Amigas, a monitor, a software). But I would
- >> really like to get the A1200 floppies going for the games! If anyone
- >> has any ideas I would appreciate it. Thanks!
-
- >I met same situation as yours. In that time A1200 Internal FD was touched
- >with metal sealed case. Then the motor spinning was disturbed by that
- >happenning. Please check your motor noise carefully. It might be able to
- >hear cyclic noise so it was caused upper reason.
- >This was cured by release screw that is fixed FD drive on A1200 body.
- >There is 3 screws around FD. The most important one is near expansion
- >slot.
-
- >Hope your help.
-
- >--
- >Mitsuru.Noguchi
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