Printable View
repair/refurbishment is a better option in my opinion, otherwise you could well just keep buying boards that need work doing to them now or in the near future.
Despite that you have no video on your A1200, is the machine actually working - ie, will the drive actually respond and start loading if you put a bootable disk in?
If you go for a replacement motherboard, you will need a 2B version otherwise the floppy drive you have wont work. But the 2B is the lesser desirable version so you might get it cheaper than other revisions.
If you do go for a different version you will have to get a floppy drive also.
No theres no response from the floppy atall when a bootable disk is in the machine. It clicks once regardless of whether there is a disk or not in it when the power is turned on though but thats all.
I kinda agree with the refurbishment thing but if it turns out its more than just caps...
What a dialema lol. :roll:
---------- Post added at 09:19 ---------- Previous post was at 09:15 ----------
Floppy drives are motherboard specific?!? I wonder if thats why theres no response from this one...
i also didnt know floppy drives were specific to motherboards, i thought that a floppy drive was a floppy drive and would work with any revision motherboard
Evilbay Airey got back to me and said he doesnt test them beyond booting, so couldnt garantee anything.
Buying one from him could land me in the same boat if caps is the only problem.
And may i ask why the 2B is the least desirable? :dry:... lol
---------- Post added at 09:39 ---------- Previous post was at 09:28 ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by scrappysphinx
Yea, i could understand 1200s not working with 600s or something but 1200s not working on 1200sl!? I'd like to know why that is... :blink:
The A1200 was sold by two companies over its life time, Commodore which went *pooff* and later Escom / Amiga Technologies. The 2B could be the Escom revision of the A1200 as opposed to Commodore for the previous revisions. Escom uses a modified PC floppy drive which can cause some incompatibilities as the modification was both board level and at the drive. Then there is the issue of accelerators and 2B compatibility which affect the boards value.
I thought the escom board was 1.d4 board?
and even though they used modified pc drives i still believed they worked on all revisions?
AFAIK the Escom 1200 floppy drives were missing the _RDY signal, so the board had to be modified to suit. If you use an Escom floppy drive on an earlier board I would think that some game bootloaders and maybe xcopy might not work properly.
From reading around the last of the 1.d4 s were sold to escom which they modified to work with pc drives and the 2b is a fully escom revision.
The 2B can be modified to work with standard amiga floppy drives though.
http://www.softpres.org/article:hard..._fdd_connector
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheoryBoy
Intersting, i was aware of the manufacturing history of the 1200 as per the ESCOM reproduction but never knew they changed this much...
---------- Post added at 11:52 ---------- Previous post was at 10:39 ----------
Hey scrappy, your parcel just arrived...
New ROM new Cable, same problem... :|
Just to clarify, nothing changed, lol. I am getting the same output as with the composite cable, and the ROMs didnt change a thing...
@AmiNeo sorry bud thought the video port might have worked.
Looks like your either after a new board or someone to repair yours.