Amiga 4000 Display trouble

[Thomas]

After power on immediately hold down both mouse buttons so that the early startup menu appears. Choose "boot without startup-sequence". A Shell window with a DOS prompt should appear. At the prompt enter

delete sys:prefs/env-archive/sys/screenmode.prefs

and

rename devs:monitors/#? sys:storage/monitors

and optionally

rename sys:storage/monitors/pal#? devs:monitors

replace pal by ntsc if your 1084 is NTSC. After a reboot the Workbench should load normally, but with only four colors. Run Prefs/ScreenMode to select a more convenient screen mode.

However, OS 3.9 does not look well on a 1084, because it cannot display highres in 1:1 aspect. This would be PAL:Hires Interlaced, but it flickers like hell.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

drewz21 wrote:
Anyone?  Please.

Can you imagine that many people in this forum are living in Europe ? Your post was at 4:21 CET. Most of us were sleeping deeply at this time.

The Workbench screen comes up fine now. However, the mouse and keyboard stop responding after about 5-6 seconds.

What kind of processor does your Amiga have ? If it is a 68060, then you need to install additional libraries. It's a wonder that it passed SetPatch without a crash.

Does only the Workbench screen come up or do you also see the desktop with its icons ? Does AmiDock load and show ?

You can enter the following commands at the DOS prompt:

rename s:user-startup s:user-startup.disabled

rename sys:wbstartup sys:wbstartup.disabled

This will disable everything which is started automatically after the boot process. But it's only a workaround, you should really find out why it freezes.