Pale grey screen with FastATA connected

[motorollin]

I managed to get my FastATA connected along with a hard drive and CD-ROM. I reconnected my Mediator and my 060 and powered up, and all I got was a pale grey screen. I didn't get the rainbow screen of the Blizzard initialising. I disconnected the FastATA, put my ROM chips back on the motherboard and powered up again and it worked fine. What would a pale grey screen normally mean?

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moto

[motorollin]

I've spoken to Matthew at Amigakit and he reckons the socket isn't connected firmly over Gayle. I didn't remove the motherboard from the case before fitting so couldn't push down very hard to fit it. I'm going to try removing the motherboard and see if I can get it working out of the case, then rebuild everything.

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moto

[motorollin]

I took my motherboard out this morning so I could see what I was doing. I reconnected the FastATA and made sure the ROM socket was pushed all the way down and the Gayle connector was touching the motherboard on all four sides, and the machine booted to the early startup screen.

The motherboard is still sitting on my desk with just my Mediator and 060 connected, with the ATX connector from the PSU connected to the Mediator. The only problem is that the machine won't detect a hard disk connected to the FastATA. The cable is in the correct orientation and the jumper setting is correct. Any ideas? I was wondering if it was due to the pin that connects to the Amiga's internal IDE bus, but I don't know what this does, or whether it could cause this problem if not connected properly?

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moto

[motorollin]

I had an email from Matthew at Amigakit this morning. He confirmed what you said that the pin that connects to the IDE interface is just to make the HDD light work. I'll try with it disconnected just in case I connected it wrong. If it still doesn't work I'll triple check the IDE cabling, though I'm sure I connected it right.

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moto

[motorollin]

JJ wrote:
what drives you got connected, you had any joy, i seem to remeber if you had a 2.,5inch connected, and another drive or cd-rom, it would not see anything

Just a 3.5" hard drive set to master. I've given up with it now. I'm going to try and get rid of the FastATA and get a SCSI kit for my Blizzard 1260. Thanks anyway for the help!

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moto