ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2017 Entry 10th August 2017: Post: 1 Its kinda a gravity issue Hi Whilst I had the large table available in the small room I decided to strip back the tower and see what was causing the issues for the Amiga not to boot. The problem is like on a three month cycle . Generally up until then she works without fault. Then slowly the computer struggles to boot and then finally gives up. The solution: Lay the motherboard flat and gently reseat all the connectors provided for the tower that attach to the 1200 motherboard, like the keyboard connector and the monitor connectors. Also push the Blizzard back into its connector and to make sure all the ribbon connectors are firmly attached to the buffered interface. In truth I do very little but like magic as soon as I switch on she fires first time and without fault. As Sheldon Cooper once said on Big Bang ' Oh gravity you are a heartless bitch ' . I just sense that the A1200 was never designed to sit like this vertical especially the Blizzard. The weight of these items are generally trying to drop down and it takes very little for this to happen. So by simply reseating everything it works for around three months and then falls over again. I'm tempted to try and lay the computer on its side when I'm done cataloguing all the disks and use the computer more like a big shelf. I had a very odd moment when I switched on the computer. The tower takes power from a single blue wire that fits into the centre of the power connector. I switched back on and forgot that I hadn't put the blue wire into the power connector. But the tower still booted up fine. No doubt taking the power from the floppy connector. Not sure how dangerous that was to the mobo but for a minute I thought I was having one of those ghostly dreams where it really wasn't happening. Anyway I took some pictures of the whole event plus some images of this mountain of disks I have to plough through. scuzz Not a washing machine... Its actually a not so EZ-Tower from those nice folk at EyeTech Scandoubler flicker fixer thingys [ technical ] that let me use a PC monitor. I have no idea The back of the Blizzard.. The light green thingy The ribbon to the monitor port Keyboard adaptor so I can use my 2000 keyboard The ribbon connector to the buffered interface The buffered interface so I can use the 3.5" hard drives, ZIP and CD-ROM Thems ROM thingy's that do stuff A map of the London Underground Revision number of motherboard which folk always want to know for some reason DOpus with nothing in RAM T. Note the very sexy slider to the drive selection. Bottom left or top right if your standing on your head My four colour Lara Croft background image plus other stuff that is like a bit technical I just like the picture of Lara No idea what a Dhrystone is . Sounds like a cowboy. I'm the red bar Acceleration. Pretty average in truth A largish image of Daniela Pestova just to show I can generate more than four colours Daniela was a Czechoslovakian when she was born into this world. Not sure what nationality she is now. Basically a VS and SI model. Technical Finally my hard drive installed version of Sensible World of Soccer. Simply the greatest Amiga game of all time. I played this game as a simulator simply editing the teams and buying players and allowing the little guys to play without any help from me. So I would be mucking around on my other machines and hear the roar as a goal was scored and then rush over to see what had happened I still play regularly. More so now the footy season is about to start again. Management.. that's technical

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