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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Broke A1000
Message-ID: <8139@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 22:15:28 GMT
References: <20785@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <20785@gryphon.COM> collins@pnet02.gryphon.com (Steven Collins) writes:
>A friend of mine has been having problems with his A1000 having read errors
>on DF0:. We figured it was a drive problem and opened the A1000 and blew
>the dust out of the drive and wiggled a few chips. Afterwards the A1000
>wouldn't even boot. The screen goes black as usual and then white like
>it does just before the kickstart hand comes up, but then hangs.
>The drive light comes on and the drive spins, but it never gronks looking
>for the kickstart disk. We are not sure if the little song plays or not...

	Sounds almost like the connector to the drive is flipped (usual
symptom: drive spins continuosly.)  I'd suspect something involving the
drive connections (they could be loose at one end or the other), or maybe
you shorted something in putting the RF sheild back on.  (I'm a software
guy, so take these with a grain of salt.)

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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