I've recently pulled out my 1000 out of storage, stripped it up and cleaned it. It works like a charm except for the drive.
The internal drive was acting temperamental, giving read/write errors on perfectly good disks (tested on my 1200), so I made sure it was real clean. Took it apart and cleaned it up with isopropyl alcohol, including the heads and everything else in the mechanism that I could access. Before re-assembling everything, I did a quick test and everything seemed fine. All disks that previously spewed errors loaded fine without any errors.
Once I put everything back together, the read/write errors popped up again. I thought that perhaps the monitor maybe a little bit too much weight (14kg max according to the A1000 manual). Would be strange though if it is, since it's a C= 1084S. I weighed it and it came at around 11kg.
I placed the monitor beside the machine rather than on top of it anyway to see if this will sort things out and it did. No more read write errors. Everything is back to normal. :biglaugh:
The question is: I'd really love to have my monitor back to where it belongs (on top of the A1000). Is there anything that can be "fixed"?
Okay, I'd like to take another stab at this one. I deleted my original response because it was more suited to issues with an internal
HD. However, since your symptoms are so eerily similar to those I experienced, I'd like to conjecture that it may well be the age of your components, and the weight of the monitor on the case. Have you tried moving the monitor around a little bit, to see if any thing changes? Also, it would be very helpful to know just what, exactly, is going on inside that case once the monitor is on top.
