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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Issues with startup
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 10, 2014, 02:54:30 AM »
Hummm, okay.  You mentioned before you were able to boot to Workbench normally with a floppy disk, correct?  Try booting off your HD, but hold down both mouse buttons and do "No Startup-Sequence".  Then put the floppy disk in the drive and try running just the SetPatch off the floppy disk (cd to DF0:C directory).  Does that work?  What version is on the disk?

What version of the OS were you booting off with this disk, BTW?
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Issues with startup
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2014, 07:54:40 PM »
Quote from: tonyvdb;779509
Im booting OS 3.1 on the hard drive.

 I mean when you boot off a floppy disk.  Didn't you say previously that you were able to boot off a floppy disk without issues?  What version is this disk, and have you tried running just the SetPatch command off of it?
 
Quote from: tonyvdb;779509
I had a thought, could my Indivision AGA have gone bad or become disconnected off the chip somehow and that cause this issue? Its buried behind the Mediator board so hard to look at unless I remove it and all the Toaster cards.

Sounds like you've got a lot of stuff going on with this system.  Indivision is one of the few pieces which isn't "touched" by SetPatch, since it should be transparent to the system at this level.  In other words, possible but not likely.  I'd try removing all the cards, reseat the processor card, check for bad or leaky caps, and try booting with just a base configuration without all the add-ons.  If it boots normally without them, add the boards back one-by-one until the problem reoccurs.  If you're lucky it's just a loose processor board or something along those lines.  Very common problem in A4000's.
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos