Will a Mega STE boot without a keyboard?

[Tyrant]

Hiya, I'm trying to test my newly donated Mega STE, and so far am getting mixed results.

 

Can anyone tell me if it should run without a keyboard? I've got it hooked up to an SC1224, and the MegaSTE is running 2.05 (french) tos roms, and doesn't have a hard drive. When powering up, I get the pure white screen I'd expect, the psu fan works, and the floppy drive briefly accesses. However, with or without a disk in the drive, it never seems to get any further.

 

Is this normal behaviour when no keyboard is connected, or should it eventually go to a gem desktop regardless?

 

Thanks.

[jens]

It should go to GEM after about fourty seconds or a minute.

[Tyrant]

I guess I wasn't being patient enough. Without a disk it took about 2 minutes before giving me a dialog box saying something about A: not responding, and suggesting I check the connections or insert a disk, but with a disk inserted, it took a whopping 1 minute 40 secs to get to a gem desktop. I hope that's because it was hunting for a keyboard for all that time, and not indicative of some kind of hardware problem slowing the whole system down.

 

Still, at least I know the machine works, now I know its worth tracking down a keyboard and tos upgrade for it. Thanks for your help.

[jens]

Well - there's the ram test you can't see, and afterwards there's a waiting period which you can stop with a keyboard click and then there's the usual time to wait for floppy or hard drive booting.

Two minutes sound reasonable if I think it over...