New member and amiga 2000 problem

[Matt_H]

Welcome! Hope you have lots of fun with your Amiga.

Unfortunately, that error signifies some sort of disk corruption. Are you booting from hard drive or floppy? And do you know which version of Amiga OS you're using? It's probably 1.3 or 2.04. The recovery methods are a bit different for each. 1.3 is very blue, with white and orange highlights. 2.x is grey with blue highlights.

Don't panic, we'll get you up and running

[Matt_H]

Pictures would help, I think.

A bit about validation: an Amiga drive will lose validation if the system crashes/reboots/powers down while there'd data being written (and if you're unlucky, sometimes while being read). Normally, it resolves itself if you let it sit for a while. But it sounds like your issue might be a bit more serious.

DiskSalv is the premiere repair utility - do not, under any circumstances, use DiskDoctor which comes with 1.3 (it'll make things worse). If you haven't discovered it yet, Aminet is a great resource. You can find a version of DiskSalv there.

[Matt_H]

Hi guys,

The hard drive card is a Great Valley A2000-hc+0 series 2 rev 2

So today, i took out both of the ram cards out of the hard drive card and placed the correct jumpers in,  I have had no more problems so far.  
Am i losing out on anything by not using those two ram cards?
I also have another card that says Meta 4 on it
And
Pcb007 rev. 1.1
Sa007 Assy007

However when i put it in, all i get is a white screen, nothing happens.  It has slots for the same RAM that i removed from the hard drive card.

Thanks!

Sounds like the RAM SIMMs on the GVP card went bad That's fairly uncommon, but not impossible. Try cleaning the contacts of the two little RAM sticks as described above, just in case it's tarnish that's keeping them from working correctly. But if the SIMMs were causing trouble on the GVP card, it makes sense that they're causing (a different kind of) trouble on the Meta4, too.

Fortunately, replacement SIMMs are easily found.

Any other hardware in the machine?