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Offline fifrelin31Topic starter

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A500 troubleshooting
« on: March 18, 2004, 09:29:10 PM »

My amiga 500 boots up apparently OK.
I see a screen with a hand and a floppy tellin gme to insert workbench 1.3 .
I've tried workbench 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 floppies but nothing happens (no 1.3 available).

I've opened the old miggy, the floppy is rotating quite slowly and silently, for a very long time. The floppy is a standard chinon FD 354.

I've tried to switch the twio CIAs, but nothing better.

The power led is green and the disk led is yellow, no blinking.  :-?

Does someone has any idea to fix the problem.
 

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Re: A500 troubleshooting
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2004, 10:46:27 PM »
@Ilwrath

I've tried to connect the floopy connector in the 2 ways, nothing better.

swap drives :-? ? I only have one in my a500

I've tested power supply, gnd, +5 and +12 are OK. I've also tried to use an PC ATX PSU to power up the floppy.
 

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Re: A500 troubleshooting
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2004, 10:47:53 PM »
with no floppy, no noise nor click click.

When I insert a floppy, the drive starts to rotate gently, but no noisy access .