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I went back to the seller. Before, he told me that if there was anything wrong with the Atari, I will get my money back. So I did. Better, he also gave me the Atari since he couldn't do anything with it anyway and I told him that perhaps I still could use it for spare parts. And the STE did saved me. This weekend I got myself a STF with SF314 and a Megafile. The SF314 and the megafile are working OK, but the diskdrive from the STF was broken; so I replaced it with the drive of the STE. Also, the SF314 worked fine with my 520ST ( from which the external drive was defect ). Got myself 2 working ST's thus!

Hi Zogging Hell, tried two mouses, with both of them I have the same issues. Guess the problem has to be searched somewhere else. Also tried Predator with auto boot; same result. There is another game which I actually could play, but sometimes it works, sometimes I get the same problems as with Predator. Must be something really nasty in the Atari. Anyway, I gave up with my STE and contacted the seller again. Already received an answer in which he told me I can bring the atari back; he will refund me. Still, if he is going to bring the Atari to the junkyard, I'm going to ask him if he can give it to me. Could be handy for replacement parts or so....

Just swapped keyboard and diskdrive. Still no luck. First, in the green desktop, the mouse is moving smoothly, like it should be. But then again, it sometimes did with the old keyboard. I've inserted the game "Predator" and start it from the floppy icon on the desktop. The game title appears, but then it's over. I see a glimpse of 3 bombs and the ST reboots. Disk is being read again, again the title screen, and again the reboot. An endless loop :-) i tried again with another game, but I think that disk is corrupt. Start the STf without disk, but in the green desktop, the mouse is acting weird again... I think it is getting hopeless...

The contacts were not oxidized, so I think they were fine. I also tried to copy a disk, or to format the disk. When want to copy a disk, the vertical stripes - screen appears. When I try to format the disk, the screen just freezes. Both times, the diskdrive was reading the disk for a short period of time ( you can hear it ) and then the screen freezed / stripes appeared.

Thx Ninja, I 've managed to get the chips out of their sockets. Even managed to put 'm back were they belong :-) . They are indeed very fragile. Alas, it didn't do anything on my problem. The Atari is still crashing every time a disk is loaded.

I just opened up the atari again and removed the clips. But how do you get the chips out of their sockets? I already tried with using 2 small screwdrivers, but I'm afraid that I would damage the chips...

So, just opened both ST's, exchanged the PSU, but with the same result: vertical stripes when loading a disk. I also swapped the disk drives, but still the same problem. At last I took the SIMM's out of the mainoard and plugged them back in. @Atarian63: what do I have to take off? There are multiple square chips. And what do you mean with the glue chips? Here's a picture of the mainboard:

Hi all, Years ago, I was given a 1040 STf with color monitor from a friend, for free. The computer was to be thrown away, so I guess you could say I saved him :-) . Unfortunality, the thing did not worked very well. The mouse did not responded well, disks were not loading and I was bombed with..ehr..bombs. The Atari was been put in a box for serveral years. Recently, I started to be more and more interested in old hardware and retrogaming. I bought a 520ST with external diskdrive, software and an Atari printer. No luck for me: the diskdrive was not working (or it was working too hard, keeps on spinning ). Luckily, the seller gave me back the money and... let me have the Atari. Recently I bought myself a third Atari, a 1040STe with some software. I came home and connected the computer to my old monitor. The TOS screen came alive. So far, so good, I though, but then it happened: when I want to load a disk, the screen changes and the only thing I see are vertical stripes. I tried several disks, try to start the computer with disk, tried to open the language disk from the disk icon on the desktop, but very time, I have the same result: vertical stripes ( see photo below ). So, at the moment I got a 1040STf, a 520ST and a 1040STe. None of them are working correctly. Guess Atari and me, we don't go along. Is here anyone who knows what this problem could be? The seller told me that, if the Atari wasn't working, I could have my money back, but first I would like to try to fix the computer. Perhaps it's just something small...