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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: staggy on January 29, 2004, 12:17:39 PM
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Hi all!
I am having trouble with my custom A1200T060. It won't boot up: booting from HDD results in a 8000 0008 Guru, disconnecting the HDD works as far as the boot up screen, but no disks are read (the disk drive makes the standard illegible disk noises). I have tried dismantling all extra periphals and cards (including the 68060 card), but to no effect. My spec: A1200, Kick 3.1, Blizzard 1260/50 with extra SCSI board and 64 MB of fast ram (two 32 MB units on accelerator and SCSI-card respectively), Western Digital Caviar 307 AA IDE-HDD.I'd be grateful for any help!
-staggy
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Tried re-seating all the chips on the mobo? And maybe check the PSU as well...
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Did it just start doing that or did it appear after a hardware modification?
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Well I guess the disk drive has died or the cable has become loose and on the HDD there is some software installed which causes the crash. Try if "Boot without startup-sequence" works from the Early-Startup menu.
Bye,
Thomas
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I've tried all your suggestions, no success. It worked fine, then I removed the SCSI CD-drive to mount it in my A4000, since then the A1200 hasn't been working. Any more ideas?
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I helped out a guy a couple of weeks ago; he had just bought an Blizzard060 and SCSI controller, but when he started his computer up, then it always gave him an error requester. I can't remember of it was #80000004 or #80000008, but anyway, the computer didn't function as it should.
I told him to run a viruschecker on his harddrive; that cleared the problem.
It doesn't help you with your diskdrive though, but maybe it's a combo of virus on hdd and a broken diskdrive.
Have you tried hooking the CD drive up to the Amiga once again, and see if it helps? Or without the CD drive; is the scsi chain terminated?
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Download the latest 060 libraries for your 1260 from Aminet. The archive name is 68060-V44_3.lha. Read the menu how to install the libraries. On this website are some info about the Blizzard 1260:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/1739/1260.html
Turn all your programs in the wb-startup off to test it. Except for Cyberpatcher.
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yep follow amiga1260!
he has a good point here, it seems its the 060 libs.
also it might be your memory , i suggest that you try to put some other memory on it just for a test.
(if the updated 060 libs didnt work)
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Yup I agree it sounds like the libs. I had to install everything all over again on my A3000. When I put 3.1 on and tried to boot from the HD it would crash every time it started to boot. I forgot all about the libs for the 060. Once I put them in I stopped getting that same guru and all was okay. If you made an emergency disk from 3.9 it should have working 060 libs on it, but you never can tell.
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staggy wrote:
I've tried all your suggestions, no success. It worked fine, then I removed the SCSI CD-drive to mount it in my A4000, since then the A1200 hasn't been working. Any more ideas?
If you have no device on your SCSI controller, you might consider reinstalling the CDROM, or another SCSI HD to see if your system works again. If it does work, and you intend to run with no SCSI devices, you may have to try removing the SCSI controller as the last device in the SCSI chain normally requires termination.
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Those libs on Aminet are quite outdated. There are some newer ones on DCE's website (http://www.dcecom.de/downloads.html). They do provide a significant performance boost. I got another 2 FPS (average) out of Payback after installing these. :-)
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Thanks again for all replies. Nothing has changed though. :-( I've ordered a replacement disk drive to see whether that improves anything. Furthermore, I'm going to attempt to mount a CD-drive this afternoon.
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staggy wrote:
Furthermore, I'm going to attempt to mount a CD-drive this afternoon.
*muffled sniggering*
Blimey, what will Cyberus or Bloodline read into this?
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Well - I've got a new disk drive - the old one was definitely broken. I still can't boot from HDD, but I'm about to install the 060-libs. Let's see.
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Installing the libs did the trick! Thanks a lot folks!