A1200 wont boot without hard drive

redneon · 26 March 2005, 01:59

About a year ago I bought an A1200 with a 400mb hard drive. Recently, the hard drive has become corrupt so I've ordered a new one but in the meantime decided to take out the old one. I took out the bracket, the hard drive and uplugged the I/O cable but now when I switch on the A1200 it doesn't boot from floppy. I was expecting the usual "Insert disk" animation that you usually get but instead I get nothing but a white screen whether I have a disk in the drive when I switch the Amiga on or not.

Am I missing something? Do some jumpers need changing on the motherboard or something?

Darrell

Amiga1992 · 26 March 2005, 04:41

There re no jumpers in the mobo, this is really strange your machine should boot into the diskette screen. It doesn't appear no matter how long you wait? Does the machine work again if you plug the HD back into it?

TikTok · 26 March 2005, 07:47

Does the floppy drive make the clicking sound like it is expecting a disk? Maybe the floppy connectors (data or power) got accidently dislodged when you removed the hard drive.

DopPie · 26 March 2005, 10:45

If you have 3.1 Roms (I dont know about 3.0) you'll have to wait a long time. I don't recall how long but annoyingly long. After that, when the system decided there is no harddrive, the clicking of the diskdrive and the appearance of the usual insert disk screen appears.

The commodore designers put in this huge boot delay to give harddisks time to spin up. My initial thought was there was something wrong too.

Hope this is the case for you to or we have another problematic A1200 here.

synchro · 26 March 2005, 12:32

What make is it ?? commodore ...Amiga Technologies ??
And is it a genuine pre installed HDD or added ???

Turbo2Xs · 28 March 2005, 06:49

Did you try holding down both mouse buttons to get the boot screen? That should show if DF0: is available...

26 March 2005, 01:59	#1
redneon Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sheffield / England Age: 41 Posts: 40	A1200 wont boot without hard drive About a year ago I bought an A1200 with a 400mb hard drive. Recently, the hard drive has become corrupt so I've ordered a new one but in the meantime decided to take out the old one. I took out the bracket, the hard drive and uplugged the I/O cable but now when I switch on the A1200 it doesn't boot from floppy. I was expecting the usual "Insert disk" animation that you usually get but instead I get nothing but a white screen whether I have a disk in the drive when I switch the Amiga on or not. Am I missing something? Do some jumpers need changing on the motherboard or something? Darrell

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26 March 2005, 04:41	#2
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	There re no jumpers in the mobo, this is really strange your machine should boot into the diskette screen. It doesn't appear no matter how long you wait? Does the machine work again if you plug the HD back into it?

26 March 2005, 07:47	#3
TikTok Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Malayasia Age: 43 Posts: 657	Does the floppy drive make the clicking sound like it is expecting a disk? Maybe the floppy connectors (data or power) got accidently dislodged when you removed the hard drive.

26 March 2005, 10:45	#4
DopPie Zone Friend Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Den Hoorn, NL Age: 44 Posts: 259	If you have 3.1 Roms (I dont know about 3.0) you'll have to wait a long time. I don't recall how long but annoyingly long. After that, when the system decided there is no harddrive, the clicking of the diskdrive and the appearance of the usual insert disk screen appears. The commodore designers put in this huge boot delay to give harddisks time to spin up. My initial thought was there was something wrong too. Hope this is the case for you to or we have another problematic A1200 here.

26 March 2005, 12:32	#5
synchro Sending You Back In Time Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Age: 61 Posts: 986	What make is it ?? commodore ...Amiga Technologies ?? And is it a genuine pre installed HDD or added ???

28 March 2005, 06:49	#6
Turbo2Xs Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: o Posts: 62	Did you try holding down both mouse buttons to get the boot screen? That should show if DF0: is available...

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