New member and amiga 2000 problem

[Jaycebot]

Hey everyone,
First ill introduce myself.   I am a collector of vintage radios ranging from the 1920's to 1960's.  I am also into vinyl records.  I  pretty much like anything old and cool.

Anyway, a friend of mine gave me an Amiga 2000.  I was able to get it to boot up into the AmigaDos.  However workbench will only work maybe one out of six or seven tries.  It will say error validating disk key 2048 checksum error, use diskdoctor.   Something like that.  How can i get it to stop doing that and have workbench boot every time?

Thanks!

[Jaycebot]

Hi Matt,

It is 1.3  
I am using a hard drive
It says low memory before it gives me the error messages.  I can take pictures of the errors if you want.

[Jaycebot]

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Do I need to post pictures of the errors?

[Jaycebot]

Hey,
I think I may have fixed it.
I took out the hard drive and found out that a connector had come loose.
So for it has been working with no problems.
I'll let you know if I come across any more issues.

Thanks!

Check out my website of you want.
http://jaycesradios.jimdo.com

[Jaycebot]

I am still getting the errors some times.
I can get workbench to work sometimes when I remove the hard drive card and place it back in.

Here are the pictures of the errors





Those are all the messages I get.

[Jaycebot]

I also get an error mesage that pops up before the ones I took the pictures of.
It says I have low memory.
I only have two RAM cards in the hard drive board.  I have several extra slots in that card and another one.  
When workbench does load, I get a message that says that no errors were encountered when accessing memory.
Could it be that I do not have enough RAM cards?
Thanks

[Jaycebot]

Hi guys,

The hard drive card is a Great Valley A2000-hc+0 series 2 rev 2

So today, i took out both of the ram cards out of the hard drive card and placed the correct jumpers in,  I have had no more problems so far.  
Am i losing out on anything by not using those two ram cards?
I also have another card that says Meta 4 on it
And
Pcb007 rev. 1.1
Sa007 Assy007

However when i put it in, all i get is a white screen, nothing happens.  It has slots for the same RAM that i removed from the hard drive card.

Thanks!

[Jaycebot]

anybody know how to use the Meta 4?

[Jaycebot]

I put the ram back in after cleaning up the contacts, it works fine now!

Thanks for all of your help!
Is there anything else that I should get for it?