Path: utzoo!censor!hugh
From: hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 2000HD with NEC multisync II won't boot
Summary: use a different cable.
Message-ID: <364@censor.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 09:33:46 GMT
References: <9577@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Bell Canada, Business Development, Toronto
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In article <9577@louie.udel.EDU>, Tollefson (Jon_Tollefson_) writes:
] I recently bought an NEC multisync II monitor.  It came with a cable for
] connecting to an IBM.  I had a local dealer wire one of the cable ends to
] plug into the Amiga.  But now the hard disk (autoboot) won't boot when the
] monitor is connected to the computer.  The monitor will flash a couple of
] times but then stay black.  The hard disk activity light doesn't appear to
] come on at all.  If either end of the cable is disconnected then it will
] boot when the computer is turned on.  After the disk has started to boot I
] can connect the video cable and the picture is fine and it completes the
] booting process with no problem.  I don't have any other extra hardware
] attached.  Has anyone else had a similar problem?  If so, what was the
] problem/solution?

Your cable is wrong.  You should be able to buy one that isn't, or hack
some more with the one you've got.  I believe the problem is that the
Amy is reading a clock signal coming in from the NEC (it's used by the
Amy for genlocks & stuff) and that's what's confusing it.  Using the
proper cable everything will work fine.


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