Had a general failure of a 4000D. The machine is an 040 fitted with two hard drives and Picasso IV. At first I thought it was a drive issue but the machine refuses to boot. I removed the Picasso and reseated the 040 card plus what ever else I could seat. The board looks clean and was refurbished when bought a few years ago. There is no battery or damage evident.
Prior to reseating the card I was convinced it wasn't getting warm. Now though I am getting a yellow flashing screen and the board is warming up. I know the standard definition for yellow is..
68000 detected error before software trapped it (software or hardware error)
... but in truth it is pretty meaningless to me. Any ideas what could be causing the problem. I'm a bit stumped at the moment. The hard drives when connected appear to spin up. The floppy on the other hand is not kicking in or clicking.
Thanks in advance.
Try to toggle the keyboard capslock, if it quits responding after 6 or so toggles, its likely the cpu card is not making good contact. you may need to go in with a needle and carefully go behind each contact and spring it out ever so slightly.
If its a A3640 and caps have leaked, it could of eaten a trace near/under the caps which can give the same result.
