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Do A590s work without hard drives?
« on: September 28, 2011, 01:37:32 PM »
I have 2 A590 boards that I acquired a while back and just got round to getting myself a power supply for them.
Neither board has a hard drive but I was hoping to use an external scsi cdrom hooked up to the back port.
My problem is my A500 won't switch on with either board attached. I  tried removing the trapdoor expansion (which turned out to be a  disappointingly misnamed power pc board) as I heard these can sometimes  cause problems but still no joy.
Does anyone know if the A590 works without a hard disk attached, or are these boards just knackered?

Thanks in advance...
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Re: Do A590s work without hard drives?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 01:15:52 PM »
tried dip switch settings, jumpered ram to amnesia, tried with and without cd drive attached (both with and without a cd in the drive)... still nothing.
I'll keep my eye out for a cheap scsi drive and give that a whirl
thanks guys
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