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g01df1sh 
Most unreliable a1200s
Posted on 4-Oct-2017 18:30:54
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Think I have the most buggy a1200s. My desktop one has not stopped seeing cdrom. And the floppy drive does not even spin up. I have unplugged everything​ so only a1200 power keyboard and floppy drive connected still no life from floppy drive. Floppy power ports is getting power tested by plugging led lights in. I'm confused guess my CIA chips are f**** so hacked of with classic at the minute.

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Re: Most unreliable a1200s
Posted on 4-Oct-2017 18:35:51
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@g01df1sh

Get some new CIAs then Analogic, AmigaKit or JJB (Amiga France Centre) will do the replacement.

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Re: Most unreliable a1200s
Posted on 4-Oct-2017 18:54:10
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I am a bit of a purist and find having a stock A1200 with modest upgrades and a recap will give a much more pleasant experience than all that rubbish they were selling to make Amiga more like a PC towards the end. Voodoo graphics on an Amiga? Such blasphemy!

Keep it simple and it's less likely to go pop on you. I do run an atx psu though as modern PSU's are powerful and stable.

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Re: Most unreliable a1200s
Posted on 4-Oct-2017 18:59:01
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@A1200

Desk top one is standard. CIA surface mounted not spending more money on it and having to send it away. Most likely put on eBay or if anybody on here wants it let me know. It's a lemon I look for another one with money I get for it. Which most likely won't be a lot

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Re: Most unreliable a1200s
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System boots of df1 does df1 still use CIA chips ?

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It got frightened of going on eBay it's working now.😀

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Re: Most unreliable a1200s
Posted on 4-Oct-2017 19:20:25
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@g01df1sh

Yes it does. Likely the drive or cables. If it is the motherboard you can find plenty working/tested on eBay/amibay.

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g01df1sh 
Re: Most unreliable a1200s
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@A1200

Not sure what it was but ok at min installing wb3.1 from floppies

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Re: Most unreliable a1200s
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@g01df1sh

Happy fish 3.1 installed and cdrom working as well 😀 that's enough for tonight 3.9 Thursday. Amiga are definitely like girlfriends you have your good times and bad times lol

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danwood 
Re: Most unreliable a1200s
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@g01df1sh

It might sound obvious, but is your A1200 recapped?

If not, I'd be looking at caps and replacing them before blaming the CIAs, which in experience I have never seen fail in the A1200. But I've seen lots of weird problems due to failing caps, which is very common in the A1200.

You should get it recapped ASAP if not, you will likely find it cures the problems, if not it will avoid others in the future.

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g01df1sh 
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@danwood

It has been recapped by Russell cowell. Working last night wake up this morning drive spins then I get df0? Df1: and cdrom still work. Dam dam dam

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BigD 
Re: Most unreliable a1200s
Posted on 5-Oct-2017 10:40:07
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@danwood

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If not, I'd be looking at caps and replacing them before blaming the CIAs, which in experience I have never seen fail in the A1200. But I've seen lots of weird problems due to failing caps, which is very common in the A1200.


All it takes is bad luck whilst hot swapping a printer cable/4-player adapter or joystick/mouse and a CIA can fail.

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bennymee 
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Posted on 5-Oct-2017 11:00:51
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@g01df1sh

Another PSU ?

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g01df1sh 
Re: Most unreliable a1200s
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was wondering about PSU. Have Atx adapter might try that again on PC PSU.

Drive is getting power as it spins but it don't sound right. Normally get little spin and then a few drive grind noises and the disk icons appears. This just spins then df0???

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Posted on 5-Oct-2017 11:59:10
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@g01df1sh

Sounds like the floppy drive itself. Amigakit fixed one of my External Floppy Drives a few years ago.

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Posted on 5-Oct-2017 12:03:04
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Knew I should of brought from eu amiga not ebay. I'm still not convinced its drive though as it was working fine when I turned it off. Stopped working the next time I turned it on. This is second drive to do this...

Last edited by g01df1sh on 05-Oct-2017 at 12:03 PM.

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@g01df1sh

Not sure what to say really. I'd take it to an Amiga show or Amiga Group Meeting if you spot one close to you and show it to an expert (or AmigaKit) if your worried about postage. Or just remove the drive and send it to AmigaKit to test?

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Posted on 5-Oct-2017 12:40:36
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@BigD

I could try the drive in my towered amiga to see if it works in that one.

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@g01df1sh

Try remove the floppy, the A1200 will boot if the machine is ok.

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g01df1sh 
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Posted on 5-Oct-2017 13:13:28
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@bennymee

Amiga boots ok just don't read disks in DF0

Going to take drive lid of tonight and try cleaning it.

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