I moved house a couple of months ago and packed all my Amiga gear and shipped it a few hundred miles to the new place.
The A4000D worked staright out the box as did the A2000D but the A3000D isn't booting when the harddrive is connected to the internal SCSI header on the mother board.
The machine wasn't booting at all until I reseated the A3040 V3.1 card.
I can get it to boot from floppy with harddrive disconnected. But as soon as I connect it to the internal SCSI header, no boot - just a black screen.
Ive tried all sorts of things - swapped known good HD's from the A2000D, no good. Fitted the GVP SCSI card from the A2000 in the A3000. Won't boot from the HD but will boot into workbench from floppy and once booted I can see and access the HDs on the workbench screen.
Anyone have ideas what else I can check?
Thanks.
Weed.
Just some quick things..Best to check with cards removed if any. Is the cable right way round on the scsi header and or drive(red stripe with pin 1 on connectors)?
Did you miss a pin or offset it on the pin header when plugging it in?
can you try with another good cable?
does the drive seem to spin up ok?
have you tried a keyboard warm reset(ctrl -A-A)?-maybe it spins up too slow?
Having checked all that i would check the power supply for proper voltages.+5 and +12
If all is ok on the psu,reseat all the chips in the machine(dont just push on them,pull them and reinstall-look for any bent under pins.
If the 3040(warp engine/apollo?) popped loose in transit,i'm betting that reseating the chips may help.
If none of this helps let us know and we can try and help you more.
Mech