need help with an A1000 and disk loading

[oblivion]

My A1000 was working fine then today when I popped in a disk and went to load a game I got this.



The kickstart 1.3 disk loads up fine but any disk I insert after it whether it be workbench or a game gives me this screen and then it locks up. I was thinking maybe the floppy drive has finally went bad but then why does the kickstart disk load?

 

[FastRobPlus]

I have to admit I've never seen this. You might be able to narrow in on the issue. If you have or can borrow an external disk drive, try loading workbench from it. Thismay tell you if the drive is dirty. On the topic, do you have other kickstarts? Perhaps an error on that disk is allowing it to load up but corrupting a bit. You might also try powering down and removing the front expansion to see if that's got a bad contact or something. Lastly, the intermediate step before trying any deep troubleshooting is to open it and make sure everything is seated. Especially make sure the insider is seated And the clips (I assume ituses gator clips?) are connected. You may also try removing the insider all together, at least temporarily.

Sorry for the typos - reading this on my phone.

 

[SaviorX]

RAM issue perhaps (Kickstart is loaded into a separate 256K WCS area and would not be affected...)

 

[Pghulme]

Have you tried it without the keyboard connected?

 

[bakoulis]

RAM issue perhaps (Kickstart is loaded into a separate 256K WCS area and would not be affected...)

Remove the separate 256K WCS RAM expansion from the front panel of Amiga and try to load the kickstart disk again.
If not load, then the internal RAM is partially Bad

 

[SaviorX]

the front panel contains a RAM expansion from 256k to 512k (typically), the WCS is on a daughtercard on the inside of the system (to my knowledge) (kind of a largish Z shaped board...I havent had mine open in a while)

 

[oblivion]

Have you tried it without the keyboard connected?

that was it. thanks for the help guys.

Apparently one of my keys is stuck down. actually the entire keyboard is in pretty bad shape and in need of replacement.

One a side not my floppy drive is immiting sort of a high pitched squeak so Its probably in need of a cleaning or replacement itself.