Newbie needs help...

[Merc]

Did you turn the cable around or just rotate one end of the cable?

By reversing the cable, we mean rotate the connector on one end of the cable around 180 degrees so what was at pin 1 is now at pin 34 (or whatever).

If one of your CIAs is bad, then swapping the two chips will cause another problem in another part of the Amiga, maybe your mouse will stop working for example.

Hope that helps!

[Spectrum75]

Hi,

I used another floppy cable on the A500 (also reversed it) and the drive is working now. It loads games and utils... Good sound and graphics. Mouse is working, too.

(When the caps lock led flashes twice while loading a disk (a game), that means the disk has bad sectors ? It happens whith one disk.)

Now the problem seems to be the keyboard.

Caps Lock led, turns on sometimes, and the A500 reboots if you press CTRL-Amiga-Amiga.

But I have tried games and they dont respond to keyboard at all; and tools like AMOS editor, or Kindwords word processor, do not type anything or respond to keyboard commands, even when the menus they work with the mouse.

Any ideas ?

[Spectrum75]

Hi,

I used another floppy cable on the A500 (also reversed it) and the drive is working now. It loads games and utils... Good sound and graphics. Mouse is working, too.

(When the caps lock led flashes twice while loading a disk (a game), that means the disk has bad sectors ? It happens whith one disk.)

Now the problem seems to be the keyboard.

Caps Lock led, turns on sometimes, and the A500 reboots if you press CTRL-Amiga-Amiga.

But I have tried games and they dont respond to keyboard at all; and tools like AMOS editor, or Kindwords word processor, do not type anything or respond to keyboard commands, even when the menus they work with the mouse.

Any ideas ?

[SamuraiCrow]

It sounds to me like the control circuitry on the keyboard itself may be bad.  You may need to replace the keyboard.