Date   : Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:02:42 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: floppy discs

At 23:30 20/07/2005, Colin wrote:

>Alas, still no joy
[snip]


This may sound like a silly question, but how long after powering up and 
listening to the long continuous tone did you leave it before switching off 
again?

reason I ask, I used to run a lot of beebs 24/7 (multi-user BBS, econeted 
system - had about eight at one point.  Well, it was a lot for me!) and a 
problem I came across several times was that one of the capacitors in the 
PSU would fail, causing a longer and longer initial tone (of the two tones 
the B usually makes) before powering on properly.  I had one machine took 
about 24 hours to power on before I got around to fixing it.

Because of the age, and the tendancy for some capacitors to dry out over 
time, it may therefore be a PSU issue ....

If you still can't get it going, but still have the urge to play, I have 
several spare systems here, (including floppy drives!) so if you can stand 
a trip to Manchester I'll do you a swap.

Rob.