Failing to boot.

[detz]

After quite a while of odd behaviour (instabilty, etc) My amiga is now refusing to boot. At the moment it will do about 4 cycles of startting to boot then r5esetting then booting again until the monitor powers on with just a black screen. As i'm using a voodoo3 i cant see what's going on while it boots, im just about to lug a telly upstairs to do that.

Bit worried as when I had it on its side there was a screw laying in the case which shorted out on the motherboard. Was right in the bottom left corner (in a power tower), next to the small circular ferric coil type thing near the video ports.

Amiga 1200 040/166 PPC
os 3.9

Mediator
SB128
voodoo 3
network card
powerflyer gold

[lempkee]

hook up a tv , pretty sure its just a fault in the first lines in the startup-sequence , might be blizkick or simmilar.

goodluck

[detz]

yeah just watched it boot on tv - turns out I moved my samba directory and there was an assign to it in the startup. The error message was appearing on the native output and not on my monitor. Ta.

[Thomas]

You could try to run user-startup after iprefs in startup-sequence, so errors from user-startup appear on the gfx card (in the future).

Bye,
Thomas