sailorcull Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I just purchased a 1040 STFM on ebay and low and behold, it turns on, the disk drive light comes on for a second and the monitor screen shows the usual top menu, but shows no files on the disk. I have tried many disks and have tried the disks on my other ST and the disks are fine. What would cause the system to not read the disk? The drive also does not make a sound. Thank you in advance.. LSC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 If you're a bit adventurous, you can swap the known working drives from the other ST to the non-working one and see if that is what it is... If you do that, and it still doesn't work, then while you have it apart, carefully check and reseat all the socketed chips. They suffer from "creep" sometimes. HTHs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailorcull Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 I am adventurous but I kind of don't want to mess up the working one doing this! I am going to see about returning it. Wish me luck! Thank you for your reply.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Well, honestly...its not that hard to take them apart. Just go slow, be careful, take pictures of things as you go, you would do okay. But if not, I hope you can get your money back at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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