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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 problems
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 20:38:18 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4hsq7q$16a@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <4hk5ae$ab4@cloner4.netcom.com> <Pine.SGI.3.91.960306170201.28724A-100000@storm.stud.unit.no> <4hkll8$m88@cloner4.netcom.com> <9603072231.AA0013c@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
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- In <9603072231.AA0013c@jmccrea.demon.co.uk> John McCrea
- <john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >
- >Mark & Michelle Wood (bamf13@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- >> In <Pine.SGI.3.91.960306170201.28724A-100000@storm.stud.unit.no>
- Tarjei
- >> Knapstad <tarjeik@stud.unit.no> writes:
- >
- >re: his 1200 not booting from floppy
- >
- >>
- >>[snip]
- >>
- >> Ummm, no, actually I had tried that first (disk in before power on).
- >> The disk I was trying to use is a DOS disk (works on my other
- Amiga).
- >> I even tried disks that are A1200 specific. Even the external drive
- >> does the same thing. I think the fact that it says ???? (non-dos)
- is a
- >> hardware related problem. The only time it sort-of read a DOS disk
- was
- >> when I went into the early boot options, but it failed half-way thru
- >> the load. It hasn't worked since, either. But the hd still boots
- >> okay. Well, thanks, any other ideas?
- >
- >Here's a long shot. I had this after fitting a hard drive to my sons'
- >1200 (except we don't have an external drive). The power connector for
- the
- >floppy was apparently correctly connected to the motherboard, but
- after a
- >lot of messing about, I discovered that two of the metal pins inside
- the
- >plastic plug had moved up as the plug was refitted due to the little
- tang
- >thing that is supposed to lock them into the plug losing its spring.
- >These two pins were thus sitting on top of the motherboard pins,
- >sufficiently to make the drive power-up sometimes, but when it did, we
- got
- >read/write errors etc. I just bent the tang out a bit and they locked
- in
- >OK. You might try refitting both power and data cables at both the
- drive
- >and motherboard (alhough whether this would affect an external drive,
- I
- >wouldn't know).
- >
- >Hope this helps
- >
- >John
- >
-
- Thanks for the reply. I'll try it!
-