A1200 boot problems!

[Tomas]

Hi I'm just wondering if you are aware of the fact that you should never plug anything into your Amiga while it's on. This includes Monitors, Joystick, Mice, Printer or Serial cables and external floppy disk drives.

I understand all but the joystick/mouse ports.. I dont understand what can go wrong there? Some games are actually made so that you MUST switch your mouse with a joystick if you happen to want to play in 2 player mode. I have done this since late 80s on mine and it still works.. What you say is true when it comes to the other cables though.

[Tomas]

This is a sure way to blow out the CIA chips in any Amiga model. If you haven't, you one of the luckiest people around!

That is indeed a really huge design flaw then. Like i said, alot of games force you to swap mouse with a joystick during the game, due to the fact that you need a mouse to start the game.
But this thing just cannot be common, as all my friends did the same and i see no easy way of shortcutting any of the pins using a standard amiga joystick or mouse, unless you are extreme unlucky. So i beg to differ.. It is you who were extreme unlucky if that happened.

I dont know of a single person who have blown their amiga this way. I know however of one who killed his a2000 by connecting a floppy drive while the amiga was powered on.

[Tomas]

I have seen alot of sparkles though when plugging in a monitor. But anyways, the chances are in imho very slim when it comes to both pc monitors and amiga joystics unless you are really unlucky. The only chance for a shortcut on the amiga i can see, is if the joystick/mouse connector has a metal piece and that you accidentally get the metal piece to touch the pins.