Hi
Stock A1200 basic machine and when firing up takes a good while to boot. Eventually does so and runs the OS from the disk without fault. Has Power Computing 4MB RAM card fitted.
Just slow to get going and wondering if that indicates anything.
This is normal, the 3.0 Kickstart has a large reset delay to give any attached hard drive time to spin up. When the A1200 was designed back in 1992, hard drives took a long time to spin up.
As already stated in this thread, if you add a hard drive, the reset cycle will complete much quicker.
I remember bring freaked out by the huge reset delay when I first switched my A1200 on (23 years ago almost to the day!), after having just upgraded from an A500.
