this is somewhat a recent development for my A500 (Rev5 board) lately i have maybe a 1 in maybe 10 to 15 chance a power on leads to a successful startup. When the Gotek is connected when its not internally or external, the amiga will go thru selftests then reboot. while flashing the RED power LED. the 1 time out of teh many attempts it takes to get it to work it will "Loop once or twice into a GURU Meditation error, then proceed just fine, untill it's powered off.
if i disconnect it? then yea its just fine, goes pretty quick to the Kickstart 1.2 image requesting Workbench disk. given the sucessrate somethings "Rotten in denmark" here, and im not exactly certain its the Gotek (it is flashed with FlashFloppy and works just fine w/ my 486 old win3.1 PC) this is a different one than i mentioned some years ago from my last post.. so its not the one that ended up getting cross-wired and burning up a USB Drive.
i dont know where the problem lies i know offhand this A500 could still use the CIA Chips being replaced, (old issue that never really went away and given they have Floppy supporting functions maybe this could be the root or part of the problem?)
i want to enjoy some decent amiga games, and .. i'm still hunting thru some nice selections for a classic config such as this one (OCS/1MB Ram) for more, but this Amiga has with its issues aside, sat in and out of stoarage due to recent issues (this has been a thron in my side since sept. '18) and previous issues, where im tempted to bite the bullet cut my losses n save up for an A1200 and just deal with emulation till then *shrug* (i sought out an A500 more from what i used to have [OCS/1MB ram GVP A530 w/ 4MB ram and 80MB SCSI HDD] as a kid, )
