Apollo 060 Hot - Is it broken?? :-(

[AmiBoy]

After pulling my towered A1200 out of my Mums loft I have been struggling to get it to work.

System Specs:

A1200 motherboard revision 1D.4 - original caps, dont believe timing fixes have been done.
3.1 Rom Chips & OS3.9 with BB2
Power Tower with original AT PSU
Apollo 060n @ 66MHz with 64MB ram (2x 32MB sticks)
Mediator v1 with upgraded MACH chips
Voodoo 3 3000
Soundcard
Network card
Buffered IDE interface with 52x CDRom & 10GB Hard drive plugged in

It started to go flaky a few years ago - with the Apollo 060 only seeing 1 of the ram sticks plugged into it. Couldnt figure out why and at the time (i tried changing the Ram sticks round and other Ram sticks of varying sizes - it wasnt the Ram itself).

I got frustrated in the end and I wasnt using the system at all at the time so just left it.

After moving house and recovering the system from my Mums where I had it stored while moving I recently started to try again with it.

If I strip my system down to just the motherboard & mediator to supply power, I do get to insert disk screen after 20-30 seconds (is this normal time?? just feels kinds long from what I remember)

This tells me the MB is OK.

If I plug the Apollo in tho, even after a few minutes waiting no insert disk screen comes up and after removing the Apollo card, I noticed that the 060 is very warm especially after only being turned on for a couple of minutes.

What could be the cause of the problems? Could it be the oscillator or voltage regulator?? Is my Apollo card broken :-( (I am hoping to heck it isnt & its a simple fix).

Any help greatly appreciated.

[AmiBoy]

After posting some pics on EAB a helpfull user has pointed out some corrosion on the card prob from a leak from the battery.

I hope its not permanent bad damage, my wallet wont like me trying to source another 060 card :-(

Who can I send the card off to for repairs?

[AmiBoy]

I have got in touch with stachu over at Amibay with regards to looking at the card and hopefully being able to repair.

From what I have seen he is great with repairs (and upgrades) to accel cards.

Just need to arrange shipping over to him.

Thanks everyone.

[AmiBoy]

Hi Brian,

Dont mind at all posting photos at all.

Have attached a picture to this post (albeit resized from orignal 7mb), but also posted some extra pics here on EAB:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=97989

From photos it identified some corrosion on the jumpers and a small chip from battery leakage.

Fingers crossed that card can be repaired.

[AmiBoy]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

I dont have any real skills or confidence with electronics so I dont dare to try fix it myself, Im sure I would make it worse!

Have got in touch with some one to look at it and make necessary repairs to get it working & also to look at potential upgrade to CPU & cooling

Will let everyone know how I get on!