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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Pertinax on February 08, 2006, 09:19:33 PM

Title: Removing power to CDRW makes CV64/3D go wrong!
Post by: Pertinax on February 08, 2006, 09:19:33 PM

It sounds odd. It is odd.

Have decided that I only need one CD-ROM and one CDRW drive in my tower.  Took the power plug out from the (to be removed) CDRW and turned the machine on.

Everything boots up fine until Workbench loads, and the monitor states that the signal is out of range. Turn off, plug the power back into the CDRW and turn on. Boots fine, Workbench displays fine.

Odd isnt it!?!?!?!?! :D

I think either my PSU is faulty, old, on the way out or my Z-IV busboard is playing up (again).

Hey ho, recently got another tower to play with though :)

Odd... very odd ;)


Jason

Title: Re: Removing power to CDRW makes CV64/3D go wrong!
Post by: blobrana on February 08, 2006, 09:51:16 PM

Hum,
get a more powerful PSU...

Before the old one dies and takes out something with it...

Title: Re: Removing power to CDRW makes CV64/3D go wrong!
Post by: patrik on February 08, 2006, 10:23:19 PM

@Pertinax:

If you remove the power, you must also remove the ide-cable.


/Patrik

Title: Re: Removing power to CDRW makes CV64/3D go wrong!
Post by: tonyvdb on February 08, 2006, 11:12:07 PM

also if the Drive was set to "Master" when you removed it the OS does not know what to do with the other drive you may have on that controler cable thats set to "Slave" (of course this all depends on if your using SCSI or IDE)

Title: Re: Removing power to CDRW makes CV64/3D go wrong!
Post by: amigagr on February 08, 2006, 11:33:39 PM

or your amiga loved to much that cd and don't want to loose it :-)