Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Forums
« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?  (Read 1858 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline r_welfareTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Jul 2004
  • Posts: 12
    • Show only replies by r_welfare
A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« on: October 30, 2005, 11:50:21 AM »
Hi all

I've picked up an A1200 at a garage sale (another one...!).  This one is nice as it has it's original box and polys.

However, I can't get any picture from it (using an aerial cable from the RF modulator to the TV).  I tell a lie - somehow for a few seconds I got a really fuzzy picture of Workbench, but I haven't been able to replicate it since...

I'm assuming that the modulator has had it.  Can these things be fixed, or is it easier/cheaper to get a 'new' motherboard from eBay?

Secondly, when I got this fuzzy screen display, it was telling me that the 'fixed disk has source error 3457' (or similar number).  When I took it apart, lo and behold a hard disk! I wasn't expecting one. Are they easy to format? (Never had an Amiga 1200 with a hard disk before).

Any help gratefully received!

Many thanks
Richard
Logged
 

Offline bludger

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Join Date: Mar 2005
  • Posts: 61
    • Show only replies by bludger
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2005, 11:56:34 AM »
You really are making life difficult for yourself still using a television.

I recently found a 1084s  monitor at the local tip shop (recycling centre) for about US$5.

And a friend gave me a Phillips CM8833 that came with an A500 he got for $3 at a weekend market.

You've just got to look around for these things.

 :-P
Logged
To quote the great man (John Cleese) himself - \\"My Hovercraft is full of Eels\\". :lol:
 

Offline r_welfareTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Jul 2004
  • Posts: 12
    • Show only replies by r_welfare
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2005, 03:55:51 PM »
Good idea, but I'm tight for space so it has to use the TV rather than the monitor!
Logged
 

Offline Homer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 1166
    • Show only replies by Homer
    • http://www.graingerweb.net
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2005, 07:00:04 PM »
According to previous discussions you could use an A520 modulator from an A500 to give a TV output from your A1200. Good luck :-)
Logged
Let X = X
{(c) Laurie Anderson}
 

Offline BadBigBen

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Join Date: Aug 2005
  • Posts: 95
    • Show only replies by BadBigBen
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2005, 08:41:34 PM »
The A1200 has a composite output (the Yellow RCA jack)...

see if your TV has a Composite input...


as for the HD... it would depend, first of all you would need a WB Disk (FD) from which you could run a number of tools, to validate the HD, or totally reformat and reinstall the WB on...
Logged
><><><><><><><><><><><
\\"Link Arms,  don\\\'t make them!\\"
<><><><><><><><><><><>
 

Offline r_welfareTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Jul 2004
  • Posts: 12
    • Show only replies by r_welfare
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2005, 09:18:30 PM »
Well, I decided on a whim to take out the hard disk.  Oddly enough, with the hard disk unplugged the computer works! But plugging it back in stops it from booting or even generating any kind of picture.  The HD light is permanently on, and the HD makes intermittent whirring noises.

The HD is a Toshiba item of indeterminate age.  I'm thinking of junking it unless anyone knows a really simple solution to the problem?
Logged
 

Offline Cyberus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2003
  • Posts: 5696
    • Show only replies by Cyberus
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2005, 10:02:12 PM »
well, you could get the model number of the drive and find out its size, but to be honets, a drive shipped with an A1200 vack then is likely today to be a noisy unreliable drive, of no more than about 210mb

i.e. junking it wouldn't be travesty
Logged
I like Amigas
 

Offline Amiga4k

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 300
    • Show only replies by Amiga4k
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2005, 12:25:46 AM »
If you have the complete set of AmigaDOS disks, why not re-install. A hard drive "error" is preventing the boot. It's a simple task to verify the hard disk and correct the data blocks, then re-install the AmigaDOS.
Logged
Won\'t hide my location.
"I know if you have been good or bad!"
 

Offline BadBigBen

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Join Date: Aug 2005
  • Posts: 95
    • Show only replies by BadBigBen
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2005, 10:12:32 AM »
Toss the HD... no big loss...

where are you located at in the World? I've got a few spares (340mb) HD's, that I would be willing to give you one...

Logged
><><><><><><><><><><><
\\"Link Arms,  don\\\'t make them!\\"
<><><><><><><><><><><>
 

Offline BenShep

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Join Date: Dec 2004
  • Posts: 104
    • Show only replies by BenShep
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2005, 12:52:16 PM »
Before you toss the HD.. it could also be a dodgy cable.
Logged
 

Offline r_welfareTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Jul 2004
  • Posts: 12
    • Show only replies by r_welfare
Re: A1200 - no picture and duff HD?
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2005, 03:47:33 PM »
Thanks everyone for the advice.  I think I will leave it without the hard drive at the moment.

Richard
Logged
 
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »