Hi all, I'm looking for some help with my a1000 I have a few unit's and they're booting to a blank white screen. They do there checks make the startup sound then goto a blank white screen, one did come up with the pic of the disk a couple of times but now it's just blank. They are hooked up with the composite output. I don't have any boot disks or software. Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm not completly sure why it would go only blank. However, an A1000 will not boot without a kick disk... it does not have a built-in kick rom. When I still had a functioning A1000, it was not uncommon for the computer to be completly blank through the loading of the boot files from the kick disk. I would have a completly white screen until the blue AOS 1.x screen came up. Though.. this would usually only occure when I had the kick disk in the system before I powered it on.

Hi all, thanks for the warm welcomes I don't have a kickstart disk and I'm aware that I won't be able to fully boot the a1000 without the disk's. I did however get when I first turn on one of the units a pic of a disk requesting a kickstart disk, this came up a number of times after switching off the unit and turning it back on 4 or 5 times. The next day I tried again to power the unit and instead of getting the pic of the disk requesting a kickstart disk I got a blank white screen, I then tried the other units I have (these units have no disk drive in them) and got the same white screen. I have tried to press the chips in and some did give a very small amount of movement but very small. I'm going to try next to remove all chips and reinstall them but I'm not holding my breath there. Seems strange to me that I got a screen requesting the kickstart disk a number of times and then with nothing more than turning of the unit and leaving overnight then got a blank screen.
Cheers Rob

Hi delshay, you have lost me I'm very new to these.

I had a similar issue before. with no floppy drive (or a bad one), it takes about 2min to show the insert kickstart graphic.

If the drive or a switch is bad inside the drive, could just keep the machine at the white screen.

I'd try reseating (not just pressing down) all I.C.'s (the two underneath the disk drive especially), the daughterboard and floppy cables first. See if you get the Kickstart hand consistently after that. If not, probably have a bad drive as joekster suggested and takes quite a while before it shows.

Ok, so I just tried the drive in one of the other a1000's and it came up in colour. Only problem there is the drive is not spinning. Atleast I now know that they do work and it is only that the drive is faulty, guess I need some floppy drives. Thanks again to everyone