Did I kill my A600?

[RedWarrior]

Ok- this follows from the CF formatting thread... Long dramas getting the CF adaptor in my machine... finally get it connected, and it doesn't boot.

Tried restoring my previous setup of noisy IDE 3.5"drive... and it's not working anymore!!

What could have happened?

[RedWarrior]

So you think I killed the motherboard? That's really bad news... Stupid adaptor shouldn't let u put it in backwards!

Is it fixable? There must be SOME hope?

[RedWarrior]

It's still alive- there's a kickstart animation... but it's not detecting the HDD at all, and I'm getting really depressed about it.

[RedWarrior]

I connected the power, so it wasn't that... but there were no burn marks or anything like that either... no smell...

confusing... I don't want to have to buy another machine! darn it...

[RedWarrior]

Would anyone in Brisbane like to donate an Amiga600, or 1200? I was really looking forward to breathing some new life into this machine & do some live music/art projects...

Major bummer.

[RedWarrior]

I would like to get a 1200 eventually, but can't afford it at the moment. I need to know if this thing is definitely dead, as I only did very short tests with the IDE setup, there was no burning smell or anything...

and I've definitely done this on a PC previously- it didn't boot, so I turned the cable around.... no problem.  why should it burn out?


What should the bios be showing? I have DF0 and CC0- and I don't know what should be there...

Still boots from floppy- tho I don't have many floppies that actually work these days.

[RedWarrior]

Yeah- the dual mouse button thing... (is BIOS an inaccurate description?) No HD0 shows up...

what is CC0 and why is it listed as a boot option?

This is going to take a while to sink in... I've been looking forward to getting this up and running for months, and have been through a lot of crap to find parts etc...

Stupid a600 piece of @$!$%!^!^

[RedWarrior]

I don't have any floppies with hdtoolbox on it...

[RedWarrior]

Tenacious I could kiss you! WOOOOOOOOOOhoooooooo!!!!

The frikkin cable had come loose at the motherboard end- not noticable to look at! :idea:

*dances around* It's working!!!!

Thanks guys!!  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D