Amiga 1000 boot problem(s)

[save2600]

I wonder if the grounding mods recommended to A1000s might help in this case?

That mod usually pertains to adding external stuff to the bus, but wouldn't hurt I guess.

Since he swapped in his A500 drive and was met with the same results, sure sounds like the KS disk is bad or there's something else going on with the Mobo. I'm betting the disk is bad. Wonder if he's using a high-density disk formatted to DD...

[yorgle]

Actually, now that I think about it more; a few notes;

My A1000 wouldn't start recently.  It had been years in storage since I booted it last.  The grease in the floppy drive got harder (i'm guessing) causing it to misalign while loading the disk.  I had to have the floppy drive on its side, and/or upside down to get it to boot.  after about 30 or so boots, it would finally work reliably right-side-up.

Be sure to use a known good, working floppy for your kickstart.  There's not much as far as error checking when loading kickstart from floppy.  if it's got bad sectors, hell, if it has a physical hole in the middle of the disk, it might still chug away, loading it into the WCS, without so much as a peep that it had a problem.

The fact that you got the same responses from the A1000 drive and the A500 drive makes me think your floppy media is faulty, or possibly that your drives are all equally misaligned somehow.

[dougal]

I think its the floppy disk and not the drive ...

I would imagine that the A1000 would not even get to the INSERT KICKSTART screen if it had faulty ram ..

Keep us posted once u try another K/S disk

[AmigaNut08]

Hi mike, Its Bee. Have you managed to get hold of another Kickstart disk??? Come to think of it i better get my A1000 out of storage as its nearly been 10 years since i powered it up. I also have left my kickstart disk in the floppy drive. Let me know if you need a copy. I can pop around after work on Friday (10th) between 2pm and 2:30pm. Let me know the situation.

Cheers

[mingle]

Hi Bee,

I have aKS1.3 floppy, but it may be stuffed - I'm hoping that's my problem - so I'll try and create a few more KS floppies and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for the offer!

Cheers,

Mike.

[AmigaNut08]

Ok, no problem. Let me know if you need help with the disks as i could test a couple on my machine just to make sure they work before i was to give them to you. This way you could tell for sure if it is your hardware at fault . Email me or send a PM to let me know.

Cheers

[mingle]

Hi All,

Well, it appears it was all down to a duff KS disk!

I managed to use transwarp and the ADF Sender Terminal program to transfer some KS ADFs from my PC to my lowly A500 and create some new KS disks (after having some probs - I didn't have the serial buffers set high enuff on my A500).

After I created a new KS1.3 floppy the A1000 now boots successfully, first time, every time!

I'm now a happy bunny!

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and comments!

Cheers,

Mike.

[dougal]

Hi All,

Well, it appears it was all down to a duff KS disk!

I managed to use transwarp and the ADF Sender Terminal program to transfer some KS ADFs from my PC to my lowly A500 and create some new KS disks (after having some probs - I didn't have the serial buffers set high enuff on my A500).

After I created a new KS1.3 floppy the A1000 now boots successfully, fist time, every time!

I'm now a happy bunny!

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and comments!

Cheers,

Mike.

Glad to see it was only a floppy disk problem .

From what you had originally said , that did seem the problem as your A1000 seemed fine

[AmigaNut08]

Good to hear all is good.

[save2600]

Happy to hear your A1000 is A-OK. Enjoy :-)