Yesterday I got my A1200 / 040 out of storage. It was working, mostly (quite a few games wouldn't work on it). As I just plan to just use it for games, I figured that I didn't need the accelerator card or extra RAM, so I removed it. Now the machine won't boot (blank screen on startup, won't get anywhere further. I'm going to try the early startup menu but even without the hard disk in, it won't show the kickstart screen.
Any ideas?
I'm wondering about trying to put the accelerator card back in.
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I've tried putting the accelerator card back in, hard disk plugged or not, no difference.
No startup menu when holding down both mouse buttons.
It responds to Ctrl + Amiga + Amiga though (but isn't that hard-wired to do that?).
The screen changes grey slightly once or twice before settling on a black / dark grey screen. Power light stays on the whole time.
One thing I did notice was that the first time I booted it after removing the card, the hard disk light came on faintly.
I can't believe I've done this, though I didn't do anything particularly stupid (IMO) when I was inside the case. It's a standard, classic A1200 chassis.
