Hi I recently found an old Amstrad 1640 under a sheet in a garage, it was booting up earlier but I accidentally unplugged it from the power supply and now when I try to turn it on the hard drive light flashes for a second and then nothing happened, Is it a hardware or corrupted hard drive issue?
If you have any idea what's wrong please let me know soon as possible.
Edit/update: I found out that the hard drive is corrupted (I will probably replace it with a floppy emulator drive sometime in the near future) so I disconnected that from the motherboard and now it boots up, however it gives me two error messages:
"ERROR: Faulty system RAM"
and sometimes it also says this:
"ERROR: Faulty serial port"
Amstrad 1640 not booting up
Amstrad 1640 not booting up
Last edited by Noaboss on Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:40 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Amstrad 1640 not booting up
No experience with Amstrad, sorry. Try asking at Vogons.org perhaps they are more knowing.
Amstrad 1640 not booting up
Ok, thanks for letting me know (: