Dead A1200?

[Azy]

Hi

I just an AT A1200 from someone on ebay (sold as fully working) and just plugged it in, nothing!. all I'm getting is the power light, no drive click or can't access the early start-up menu, all that is on the screen is nothing!, just black, I've tried replacing the floppy drive (I got another 2 A1200's (both CBM) and also tried with a different drive cable, still nothing. Cosmetically, it looks great, no yellowing at all and clean as a whistle (inside and out). It's  really nice looking machine and I'm gutted that it don't work. Has anyone got any idea's?

Thanks

[Azy]

Tried that, still the same

[Azy]

Panic over, I'm a tit , just read this on the eyetech site "Also the 3.1 ROMs have some different characteristics to your previous 3.0. Firstly they can take substantially longer than your original 3.0 ROMs. If you have no HD fitted it may take upto 30s before you see any activity at all, it should then attempt to access your floppy drive and continue. The ROMs wait this long whilst trying to find a Hard Drive to boot from, if a Hard Drive is found then it will boot. If a HD is present and working it will boot and soon as it is found - it should not take as long before starting booting." waited 30 seconds and sure enough, it worked Woohoo, I'm happy now, I can put my hd in it and connect my cdrom and extra memory

[Azy]

Well my other machines are 2.04 (A600) 3.0 (2 A1200's) and only ever had 500 and 1500 (both 1.3) before and have been away from the miggy scene for almost seven years, so really, I'm a bit of a newby again (in other words, expect some dumb questions to come in the next few weeks )