Hi ppl
I've been out of the amiga community for quite some time, but have dusted off my A1200. The 1200 is mounted in a tower, with an ATX PSU and keyboard adapter, working quite well.
To my disappointment, i can't get my floppy to work, it might be dead. I've tried quite a bit with the cable and removing the blizzard PPC and bvision card it was running on back in the days.
I even bought Amiga OS 4.1 classic edition from Hyperion, they even sent me a floppy. But turns out it can't boot.
I can't seem to find the df0: in the early startup menu.
As i said, it's been quite a while since i've done serious amiga stuff, so i have forgotten many thing, but i want my kids to see what i was doing pre-internet.
The 1200 have both a HDD and SCSI cd-rom, but the HDD won't boot, but it is spinning.
Need a bit of advice on how to get my 1200 up and running. Is it wise to buy a GoTek so that i can get started? I want to eventually install the OS on my HDD and run things from there.
Please advise on how to proceed.
Mosher
Hi
The trick is first not to mess with too much as in truth the machine may need a warm up first. Stuff will have degraded and I don't want to suggest the 'c' word but those little blighters are everywhere. I have similar issues with a number of my Amigas but I just tend to talk to them nicely and wait a while and reboot a few times. Amazingly I get days when I get nothing out of the 1200 tower and then others she works a charm.
So first things first... Ribbons. Dunno if you have a buffered interface. That is your first port of call. All of your ribbons and connectors and clean the pins etc. Press hard check for failed ribbons etc etc. Nothing else.. just ribbons and the buffered interface.
Next try lying the tower on its side or remove the hard drive and lying on its side, upside down. Here is the thing I recently stuck four Amiga drives in the freezer and that didn't work so I hit the things with a blunt end of a screwdriver and they came back to life and still work. Trick with HDs is get them working and run em every day. I have a 2000 which I lay on its side and it came back to life. And a Viper in a 500 that I left running all day and magically it came back to life. My Ateo Concepts 4000d tower was the same.
TLC, just check the cables and such. The floppy has switches on the very front and they are stuck. Just clean the front end and see if you can press them in a few times. The computer can't see them by the sounds of it. Silly girl... she just needs a little help.
Warm the computer up. Log your activities. Take pictures and then gently tweak all the connectors. Be carful with doing too much cus in the end you will be the reason why she fails. She was working before SHE WILL WORK NOW... just takes a bit more effort.
The very best of luck. Welcome back to yesterday when things were a little more slow. A cencept that takes a bit of getting use to.
