Worried about my A1200, games instability

[mikeymike]

My A1200 is almost a stock one now, just plus an IDE hard disk.  What worries me is that Worms crashed twice in a row at the moment I try to really start the game, as in, the game loads, I go through the protection bit, try to start a game, then it does a guru meditation.

Populous 2 has also frozen on me once, but it has also allowed me to play a game or two for a decent length of time without issues.

Questions:

* Recommendation for a decent hard disk checking utility and file system check utility
* If I open my A1200, (if that is worth doing) what should I check for?
* Any suggestions for what the problem might be

[amiga1260]

You could use the early startup by holding the two muose buttons when you startup and disable the caches to play the game.

[Matt_H]

Ageing PSU, maybe? I had massive stability problems on my 4000T as the original PSU began to fail.

[mikeymike]

Hmm, that would suck but it is possible - I'm using my original A500 PSU.

@a1260

I would have thought that Worms would work on a stock A1200 though.

I wonder whether the hard disk is going.

[mikeymike]

Is there a soak-testing program that I could use, like a long-term benchmark tool?

[amiga1260]

Worms does work on a standard A1200, but you could better boot it from floppy than from HD. Worms needs the full 2 MB of ram. The hard disk uses some memory.

If you rather play games from HD, you better find a memory expansion or accellerator card on Ebay.

You could use SysSpeed and AIBB to test your stability by runnig the benchmark for a while.

[NovaCoder]

Try SnoopDOS.