A1200 Blackscreening.

[EDanaII]

Just for giggles, I decided to resurrect my meager 'miga 1200. I hooked it up and powered it on and... blackscreen. The power light is on, so I know it's got power, and the image on the display is black, instead of the blue I normally get with no signal.

I booted it up with no mouse, I don't remember if this is a factor. I can't find my original 'miggy mouse, so I tried again with an old serial Kensington mouse -- I don't remember if these are compatible or not -- however, this time I did get the purple "Load Workbench," but only once. Since then, it's been black screening again.

Looking up the color screen codes for the Amiga, I find that a black screen means: passed all hardware tests, so I'm not sure what's going on here. It's been 10 years since I used it, and even longer since I used it seriously. I'm sure I'm forgetting something critical.

Any and all clues, greatly appreciated.

Ed.

[EDanaII]

Well, dip me in $#!+ and call me a "poopsicle!" RKauer nailed it. While my 1200 did have a hard drive, it wasn't currently installed, so I'm assuming that it was taking it's time trying to validate something that wasn't there. All I needed to do was wait. I have to wonder about this though, I would have thought that, the moment it tried to detect a drive and didn't find it, it would have asked for the WB disk, but... such was not the case. Of course, I may still be misunderstanding the situation.

Oh well, next steps, either find that mouse or get a new one and reinstall the hard drive...


@ -D-

I thought that too and that's why I removed the memory expansion before I tried to boot it, just in case.

Ed.