| From: | Pekka Sippola |
| Date: | 5 Jul 2001 at 13:53:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Can't boot A4000 from floppy |
Hello Adam
> will be a problem at some point in the future. Basically what occurs
> is that I can't get the early boot menu or boot from floppy. If I hold
> both mouse buttons down or put a bootable floppy in at start up, the
> machine just seems to hang, with the hard drive light on and a black
> screen. In the case of attempting to boot a floppy the drive works a
> bit but the computer doesn't boot, just the black screen.
-dead floppy
-bad floppy cable
-dirty contacts
-wrong way connection (if something changed)(I had last time)
-dead interface
My machine didn't even boot as there was PC0 without a working floppy
freezing LoadWB.
> In both instances I thought maybe it could be a problem with the
> PIV's flicker fixer/scandoubler, but I doubt that as using PPaint in
> native Amiga modes works fine (and that odd colour tint problem from a
> while back has disappeared).
A misconfigured PIV Flifi can cause black screen, but <space> changes
the default PAL 50Hz/ 31 kHz mode on.
Regards
proud owner of A500 powerhouse a�la '91
now cooking with A4000T/233PPC
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