Magmavision2000 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 When I try to play a disc game on my 8-bit, I get a "boot error" on my screen. I opened up my floppy drive and everything seemed to be okay. Also, the switches on the back are in the right place. Is my disc bad or is my drive bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 first thought it - have you cleaned the drive head with isopropyl alcohol? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magmavision2000 Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 (edited) 1 minute ago, xrbrevin said: first thought it - have you cleaned the drive head with isopropyl alcohol? I actually did when I opened it up, it didn't seem to do anything unfortunately. Edited February 9, 2020 by Magmavision2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Have you tried moving the drive select switches, preferably with some switch cleaner ? Need to move them several times. This can sometimes work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Also have tried other disks ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magmavision2000 Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 hours ago, TGB1718 said: Also have tried other disks ? At the moment I only have 2 disks, AtariDOS and Bruce Lee. When I try to use AtariDOS, it takes me to the system check screen, and when I try to play Bruce Lee, I get the "Boot Error". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 does the 'drive busy' LED illuminate when the computer is powered on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magmavision2000 Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 4 hours ago, xrbrevin said: does the 'drive busy' LED illuminate when the computer is powered on? Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockdoc2010 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 I had a power supply go south on me and I got the boot error for known good drives. Check tour voltage on the power supply. Douglas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 On 2/9/2020 at 4:40 PM, Magmavision2000 said: When I try to play a disc game on my 8-bit, I get a "boot error" on my screen. I opened up my floppy drive and everything seemed to be okay. Also, the switches on the back are in the right place. Is my disc bad or is my drive bad? Getting "BOOT ERROR" means that the computer is communicating with the drive, and the drive is configured for ID #1. Long pause between each print or "BOOT ERROR" in the 1050 will happen when the drive latch is closed with no disk, or an unreadable disk, and it will be a short pause between each if the drive latch is open. This also implies that the main electronics and IC's should be mostly good, as CPU, ROM, RAM, RIOT, and WDC pass the poweron self test. I think you need to get some additional known good disks, and ideally a known good 1050 to compare and/or swap mechs with before we can assume the mechanism or the disks themselves have issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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