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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: N3vpd on December 11, 2009, 03:49:47 PM

Title: Amiga 500
Post by: N3vpd on December 11, 2009, 03:49:47 PM

Hello Again to all,

Does anyone know if the battery on the expantion board has to be good for a external hard drove and external rom to load. Thanks for all imput. Have a great weekend

Title: Re: Amiga 500
Post by: save2600 on December 11, 2009, 03:51:59 PM

Nope, the hard drive could care less about a battery in your system. It's just there to keep time when the computer is off. Remove immediately if it doesn't hold a charge before its acid leaks all over and ruins circuitry!

Title: Re: Amiga 500
Post by: N3vpd on December 11, 2009, 04:27:22 PM

Thanks  Thats what I though as well. I have a mtec at 500 with hd hooked up and it wont boot  Its not the drive and the maching boots from floopy when disconected. There is also 3.1 rom in the case of the mtec at 500 thats not worrking either It worked 5 months ago before we moved. Its driving me nuts   Short drive.  Thanks for your input

Title: Re: Amiga 500
Post by: countzero on December 11, 2009, 05:46:12 PM

have you opened the mtec ? is everything in place ? check SCSI cables, terminators, if any ... you may have to connect the harddrive to your pc and see what's going on ...

Title: Re: Amiga 500
Post by: beller on December 11, 2009, 06:05:36 PM

Quote from: N3vpd;533419

Thanks  Thats what I though as well. I have a mtec at 500 with hd hooked up and it wont boot  Its not the drive and the maching boots from floopy when disconected. There is also 3.1 rom in the case of the mtec at 500 thats not worrking either It worked 5 months ago before we moved. Its driving me nuts   Short drive.  Thanks for your input

I had a problem with one of my 500s that wouldn't boot, the battery was dead in the memory expansion.  As soon as I pulled the board the machine booted.   Since your machine boots when the drive is removed I'd suggest checking the drive's chips to see if any became loose when you moved.  I'd also change your battery, you don't want them leaking.

Bob

Title: Re: Amiga 500
Post by: N3vpd on December 11, 2009, 07:40:56 PM

Thanks Guys  Yes I replaced the battery Clock works great boots from floppy everthings great till I plug the at 500 in then for the most part  Its Dead  Almost seems like the power supple is bad However I changed that too.  Funny thing IS if I just dissconect the drive and leave the board pluged in the kickstart don't even come up   Thanks