Hi,

Write down what cards are where and remove them. Try and start from a bare bones machine,  maybe graphics card only if one is present.

Chris

A real 4000tower or 4000desktop made into a tower would not bring up a kickstart pic.
If the hard drive has lost it's boot sector, it would show a insert workbench disk.

If the hard drive is corrupted, just put in a workbench disk.
If it's a 4000Desktop, it should boot from the floppy.
If it's a real 4000Tower, you will need a 4000T workbench (as it needs wb.libs)
m

Just to point out that you really, really, really! need to terminate the 4000 SCSI bus... if you don't the system will hang at boot.

There is a built-in terminator in the mouse/keyboard print at the back of the case. Maybe the SCSI ribbon cable came loose from that?

Try removing the drives from the SCSI cable and have it run from the motherboard to the terminator. If you then turn on the system you should be greeted with the famous kickstart 3.1 screen...

Just to point out that you really, really, really! need to terminate the 4000 SCSI bus... if you don't the system will hang at boot.

There is a built-in terminator in the mouse/keyboard print at the back of the case. Maybe the SCSI ribbon cable came loose from that?

Try removing the drives from the SCSI cable and have it run from the motherboard to the terminator. If you then turn on the system you should be greeted with the famous kickstart 3.1 screen...

Once again. No 4000 will show a KICKstart pic. Kickstart is in rom.
What you should see is a insert Workbench disk screen.

BTW, if this is a 4000Desktop that has been placed in a tower.
It has ide connector on the motherboard.
If it has scsi, it must be a add-in.

If you're going to sell this please show us a pic!

m

I will post links for purchase. Oh yeah, ones I make sure the Amiga 1200 works 100% I am also selling my Amiga 500 with 8 MB of RAM and external GVP hard drive with 100 MB and it's power supply and the Amiga 500 power supply . So you guys could fun all the way.

I just realized that the Amiga 1200 is truly the most superior Amiga classical models in the world. I was a moron to have sold my first Amiga 1200 but I am glad I got it back...though the case it needs a little bit of cleaning. But I am glad I got another chance to own ones again. This time I will never let go it of it again ever!!!

Once again. No 4000 will show a KICKstart pic. Kickstart is in rom.
What you should see is a insert Workbench disk screen.
m

say what?
it doesn't matter if some call it  'insert workbench disk *animation*' or kickstart.pic, its the same thing. and its still in rom.

I have a little problem with my Amiga 1200D. I need someone to help me with this. In the Amiga 1200D that I got it have a SCSI expansion card installed into it...when I hook the external SCSI hard drive box with the CD-ROM the Amiga 1200 does not detect it all. No matter what I do it does not detect the CD-ROM or the HD from the SCSI cable. Another problem I am facing, it does not have a HD installed into it..but it takes like a complete minute before the kickstart screen appears, and the floppy disk does not work. However, ones the kickstart 3.1 screen appears and I place the floppy disk it takes 20 seconds after inserting the floppy disk for the Amiga 1200 to read the disk. However, when I soft reboot the system it goes into black screen and wait another one complete minute before the kickstart screen appears...but the disk drive no longer read the floppy disk even earlier it read it before. I do not know what to do. I want TO SOOO BADLY WHEN I USE the SCSI cable the SCSI CD-ROM works. Both the CD-ROM and HD are placed inside a PC case with a power supply and a long SCSI cable hooked into the back of the A1200 SCSI port.

but when I place a copy of Amiga OS 3.5 into the CD ROm my Amiga 1200 does not see it nor the HD either....I am torn!! I reaaally want badly to get my A1200 working. Thanks in advance!!