Dropcheck Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 I finally got around to installing this massive upgrade to one of my stock 1050's this weekend. It went easier than I feared. I usually manage to mangle upgrades. Usually because I am in a hurry and I miss some crucial piece of info. But this time everything seemed to fall into place. So far I haven't placed the display board into the front housing. I wanted to make sure that it worked first. I first plugged in power only. No data cable. It booted with a FL display for a few seconds and then beeped and went to the first sector and displayed 00 for the sector. So far so good. I powered off and connected a data cable to my stock 130XE. Turned on the 1050 with the drive lever open. Again it displayed FL for a few seconds and then went to 00. Now as I understand I should be able to turn the dial and see various mode codes display. No change. The dial seems to turn, but the display stays at 00. I pressed the reset button. Same response. FL then 00. So I thought well is this indication of the default mode which seems to be the stock 1050 OS? I inserted a DOS2.5 bootable floppy and closed the door. Then I turned on the Atari 130XE. Sure enough the computer loaded the 130XE ramdisk and booted to the ready prompt. So....... the basic drive is working. But I thought I had all kinds of extra stuff now in the drive. I fiddled around with it, trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. No matter what I did I could not get the dial to select and display any of the other modes. Okay, I took out the disk and shut everything off. On a whim I turned the drive back on, no disk inserted, drive lever open. FL then 00 as before. Then I turned the computer on. I figured I would get the usual boot error like a normal stock drive would give me. Noooooo. Instead I got a scary loud beep and the Mega Speedy Menu v1.0 displays on my monitor. I can select the various modes that come standard and the drive will take that selection and the led displays the correct mode. ie S for Super Speedy and the disk copy program comes up etc. Is just that my dial is bad? How can I tell what firmware is currently flashed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Press the button that is between the dial and the 00 read out.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropcheck Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 Press the button that is between the dial and the 00 read out.. That's the reset button right? I did. Like I said I get the FL and then 00. There is no display change when I turn the dial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Turn the dial while it's displaying FL, once it displays 00 the mode is set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropcheck Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 Bingo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 And if the dial does change to a different mode you select and lock that mode by press in on the dial.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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