bendavis22 wrote:
I don't know how I got this thing to bootup before, but I can't get anything to show up on the screen. I try to let it bootup via the hard drive by not putting any floppies in it. That does not work. I try several floppies marked as boot floppies that seem to load for a minute, but then stop. It stops at this state where it seems to look for a floppy disk in one of the drives (it has two external - I've tried with them and without them connected) every 2 seconds. If I put another one in one of the drives, it seems again to work on loading something, but nothing ever shows on screen and it goes back to checking the floppy drives every 2 seconds. I even tried the Commodore Install Disk Version 3.0 and it also does the same thing, seems to try to boot and then fails.
I think it is likely that there is some kind of a problem with the monitor. You can verify that the Amiga works by holding down the two mouse buttons while turing on the Amiga, which should display the Early Startup Menu. While the ESM is displayed, there won't be any disk activity, as the system will not continue autobooting.
Fiddle with the monitor until you get it to work. If it is a Commodore 108x it probably has a few switches on front and back that toggle between RGB/Composite and Analogue/Digital modes. Make sure that you haven't accidentally switched them to a different position. What you need is Analogue/RGB mode, otherwise you get a black screen.
Do not hotplug the monitor as that could fry a couple of on-board resistors connected to the AGA chipset which will prevent the RGB output from working.
If everything else fails, you can try connecting a TV through the composite port and see if you get a picture that way.
