darkxavier Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi Recently bought a Mega STe off ebay. Takes ages to boot up with a disk inserted when powered up first time. White screen for about a minute. Then the disk drive spins up and the desktop appears. But when soft reset, it will read the disk immediately and go straight into the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+poobah Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi Recently bought a Mega STe off ebay. Takes ages to boot up with a disk inserted when powered up first time. White screen for about a minute. Then the disk drive spins up and the desktop appears. But when soft reset, it will read the disk immediately and go straight into the desktop. If it is TOS 2.05, the delay is the memory test. TOS 2.06 adds a progress bar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi Recently bought a Mega STe off ebay. Takes ages to boot up with a disk inserted when powered up first time. White screen for about a minute. Then the disk drive spins up and the desktop appears. But when soft reset, it will read the disk immediately and go straight into the desktop. Is there a black progress bar during this delay? If so, bash a key and it will go right on with the boot-up process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkxavier Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 Thanks for the help. It's running Tos 2.05 so no progress bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Is the floppy good? I remember inserting a bad floppy, then waiting forever to check if the disk was readable, then going to desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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