Amiga 4000 HELP!!!

[Boot_WB]

Better off uploading them to a image hosting site such as tinypic, then linking to them (using the "chain" symbol on the message posting screen.

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Rich

[Boot_WB]

It could be a problem with the CIA chips.

Are these socketed on your A4000 motherboard?

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Rich

[Boot_WB]

Try the mouse without the keyboard plugged in, and then vice-versa. If one of them is causing the fault, this will help you identify which it is.

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Rich

[Boot_WB]

swoslover wrote:
Rich

I tried what you suggested and the mouse worked (upon which I could have kissed you!)

:nervous:

... then mysteriously stopped, maybe there is a defective connection or something?

interesting.. it could just be a short in the mouse cable, or the pcb in the body of the mouse.
What happened when you tried the keyboard on its own?
Do you have an alternative Amiga mouse you could try?

Sorry if it appears that I have already tried some of the advice. I have been doing it as I go along, the basic like cleaning I can do (just!)

No problem, fault finding can be a tedious and frustrating experience until :idea: it all clicks into place, whereupon it ultimately proves to be a very rewarding experience, with useful things learned along the way.

Everything else seems perfect the floppy, hd etc all work well.

That is good news!

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Rich

[Boot_WB]

I'll add my voice to the chorus and strongly recommend you get the monitor lead sorted out. Even if you just strip away the outer plastic shielding and put insulation tape around any individual wires which have been worn bare.



EDIT : Ohhh, the power lead. I too thought you meant the monitor data cable.

PS - you can control mouse functions with the keyboard on the miggy - a good way to test if the keyboard is working! Hold the right amiga key down, and use the cursor keys to move the pointer. Right Amiga key + right alt = right mouse button; left amiga key + left alt = left mouse button.

One other thing I'd recommend, open up the miggy and diconnect the keylock wire form the motherboard. It could be that this is shorting even though the "lock" on the front is in the open position. The header is at the front of the motherboard, just behind the ram slots.

There are three headers - power, disk activity and keylock. It's marked on the silkscreen which one is which.

Regarding CD rom drives - most will work, some older ones may not (but this is rare). There's no danger in trying. IDEfix97 is probably the easiest package to use to test it out, as the finddevice utility is really user friendly.

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Rich

[Boot_WB]

Great news! Glad to hear that all is working ok. I guess it must have just got a few bumps during delivery, adn cleaning/reseating everything sorted out some loose connection.

Never heard of IDE 99, but you can download IDEfix 97 from Aminet.

You should be able to use pretty much any modern CD drive, although dpending how fast it is, speed will be limited by the cheapo IDE bus of the A4K. This won't cause any problems with reading CDs, but if you were writing a CD you may experience buffer underrun.

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Rich

EDIT: Is that the EIDE99 adapter from Elbox (kind of wedge shaped, socket on the bottom, two pin headers on the side)?

If so, the connector on the bottom is 44-pin, and will not physically fit onto the 40 pin IDE header on the a4000 motherboard.

Assuming you have only one hard drive in the A4000, you can just attach the CD rom drive to the same IDE cable, and set it as slave using the jumpers on the CD rom drive.

[Boot_WB]

PM me your address, I'll send you some floppies with IDEfix 97 and AmiCDFS on - you can take your pick which you find the most useful.

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Rich