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Offline orb85750

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Re: A2000 repairs
« on: March 20, 2009, 01:06:13 AM »
Is the floppy drive clicking once you remove all the cards?  If so, did you try inserting a workbench floppy?  (But it seems that you would see the request for the workbench floppy on screen if SCSI HDD controller card was removed and if everything were really OK.) -Dave
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Re: A2000 repairs
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 09:05:24 PM »
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Tenacious wrote:
IIRC, an Amiga won't boot without DF0: connected, right?


It will boot with a hard drive OR floppy OR both. So, no need for DF0: if there's another boot device.

Even with no drives it will power up and show the kickstart screen prompting you to instert a bootable disk of some kind, which is enough to let you know if it works enough to display SOMETHING on screen.


If something is a bit wrong with the hard drive or controller card, it may get stuck in the boot-up and simply show a blank screen -- never getting to the floppy drive (that's what happened to me in the past with an A2000).  So make sure you remove all hard drive controllers if it does not boot up with them attached.  -Dave
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