Green screen of death.

[Daedalus]

Ok , both mouse buttons pressed it shows no HD , so I guess that it's borked .

Just found another randon 2.5 HD , this doesn't show up either , could be 2 duff discs (they're bound to be old) or is it a duff HD controller on Mobo ?

The green screen thing is confusing , sometimes it does , sometimes it doesn't :confused:

You need to have a look at the motherboard itself to see if there are any signs of visible damage there. It's possible for a trapdoor expansion to trigger it, but unlikely. As for the hard drives - unless they contain Amiga partitions and RDB, they're not going to show up in the early startup menu, even if they're perfectly good. You need to boot from a floppy with a hard drive prep tool to really see if they're working, not working, or working with a DOS or Windows setup.

[Daedalus]

Yep, only Amiga partitions show up in the early startup menu. Well, the floppy drive should work, but IIRC it doesn't physically fit. So if you connect it up and leave the top cover loose on the A1200, you should be able to get it going that way. Those original drives are dying of old age unfortunately - it's quite possible the A1200's one's time had come...

[Daedalus]

I haven't come across a modern drive that wouldn't work with the A1200, but of course haven't tried them all... But like others have said, a CF card and adaptor are very cheap these days, and probably more than you'd ever need!

If that external floppy drive works, you should be able to connect it to the A1200 and boot from it - the OS doesn't really discriminate between drives, only some games do and require running from the internal drive...

[Daedalus]

The ribbon needs to be fully inserted into its slot, and the "grip" pushed fully down onto the top of the socket. Failing that you could have dirty contacts or a cracked cable...