| From: | Nicholaus Darley-Jones |
| Date: | 3 Jul 2001 at 02:42:56 |
| Subject: | Re: Slow booting |
Hello Steve
On 02-Jul-01, you wrote:
> Here's the deal, since I put the Amiga in a tower, if I power up from cold
> (and I mean cold - 15 or 20 minutes since I powered down), the HD will not
> boot. I power down and power up again, and the HD is recognised, but the
> keyboard isn't. I power down and up again, and both HD and keyboard are
> recognised. However, this time I get the "Insert Disk" screen, and have to
> soft reboot to get my system up and running. After that, it's fine.
Are you using a PowerFlyer? I had the same problem where I was affraid to
turn the thing off (It's on 24/7 anyway because of RC5) because I knew that
when I turned it back on it wouldn't boot.
Getting it to boot would involve taking the whole system appart and messing
about with the PowerFlyer.
My conclusion was that the PowerFlyer was a bit dodgy. Either there was a
hair-line crack in the PowerFlyer or there was a short somewhere. The PF
gets moved about quite a bit when attaching IDE cables and such so maybe
this has happened to yours. Just by having the system 'heating up' and
move parts enough to make contact if there is a crack somewhere.
Does the drives turn on and off for no reason at all during use? This did
happen to mine before I decided to replace it. The old one is currently in
an unmodifies A1200 desktop and seems to work fine.
Hope I haven't alarmed you but this might be the reason if you have a PF.
Regards
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