Never seen an A1200 doing this before!

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Just got an A1200 for free. When I turn the thing on, there is about a 2 second delay before the Power LED comes on.  The HD light actually comes on first!!

The system is a bit unstable, as could be expected for a 17 year old system.  Tried loading Parasol Stars as it was the first disk I could lay my hands on at the time.  After loading, the Power LED goes completely off, but the system still works fine.

I know that when the audio filter is off, the LED dims (or is it the other way round..) and I know that on early A500s the LED would go off instead of dimming, but I've never encountered this behaviour on an A1200 before.  Also, when soft resetting, the light goes out for a few seconds.  Pretty kewl I thought.

Anybody else have one of these motherboards? or is there just something wrong with my one?

Hmmm........

[Tension]

Could be a failing capacitor problem.

Seems unlikely in my opinion.

[Tension]

That's an Amiga attribute AFAIK. Any Amiga I've ever used seem to exhibit that upon startup anyway. That would include all models sans a 3000T, 4000T, CDTV, A1500 or a 500+. lol

Maybe someone performed a hardware hack bypassing the audio filter? Have you opened it up yet to clean out the dead spiders and cockroaches? lol

Yea its been thoroughly cleaned, seemed fine on the inside.  Very very strange...

[Tension]

A daft statement - but are you sure someone hasn't had the diode board out and refitted it the wrong way round?!

Dave G

That really was a daft statement lol.