Hi,
@elpiloto,
Just pulled my A4000 with O40 card out of the Attic, had
the same probem as you have, first thing is check your ide
cable and make sure it is not intermittent, make sure it is
totally plugged in at both ends, check your floppy disk
cables make sure both are tight and then finally check your
CPU 040 card. Press down on it a couple of times and make
sure it is will seated. My old Amiga had an intermittent
ide cable, and a floppy drive cable that was only half way
plugged in. Try CNTRL AMIGA AMIGA does the lights flash
and does it look like its trying to reboot.
Are your JUMPERS correct for an 040 card?
Next thing is do you have a SCSI card in one of the slots?
If you do remove it, because this produces a 30 sec to a
minute delay before the system actuates.
How old is your battery, mine when I first turned it on
after sitting unused for two years, was completely dead, it
took almost 8 hours to get enough charge to actuate the
OS chips so the computer knew what to do on boot up, but
I knew this because my Amiga 4000 always had this problem
when I didn't use it, I solved this problem by going to
Wal-Mart and bought a new 3.6VDC phone battery and put it
in, and yes hillary a 3.6VDC battery works better than that
little piece of junk that came with the Amiga, just get an
old phone, cut the plug off, carefully remove the battery,
leaving the two thin ends still soldered to the board,
solder the plug that you cut out of the old phone to the
two thin tabs you left in observing polarity, and plug in
the phone battery into the plug you removed from the old
phone.
Summary:
Check Floppy disk cable
Check IDE cable
Check Battery
Check Jumpers
Press down or reseat CPU card.
If that don't work, sell me the Amiga 4000 for spare parts.
Good Luck, hope my suggestions work, it will be great to
hear that another Amiga 4000 was saved from scrap heap.
smerf
