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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: on May 26, 2008, 05:24:12 AM
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Anyone who wants an A1200 motherboard that has a pin broken off of the IDE header is welcome to it for postage... pm me.
[edit:] the board is otherwise fully functional and has 3.1 roms, which I'm not even going to bother to pull.
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PMing ya
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I just did the same I guess the race is on :)
*crosses fingers*
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AltRN8 wrote:
I just did the same I guess the race is on :)
*crosses fingers*
Congrats, I'm pretty sure you won. :-P
Really nice of pkillo to offer a free board, broken or not! :pint:
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-D- wrote:
Really nice of pkillo to offer a free board, broken or not! :pint:
Hehehe. Well, actually, the way I figure it, it's good karma (considering I no longer have a use for it) to give the board away. i could obviously use some good karma (or at least luck!) for my other projects, so it's actually a selfish motive. :lol:
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ROMs alone are worth $40. I would offer him some $.
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Is it NTSC or PAL?
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it's ntsc.
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Would be quite easy to solder a new IDE header on. I have a broken A600 board if anyone wants to get that off me (just pay the postage) and get pkillo's A1200 off him and from the 2 you will have one good machine!
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**you don`t have to changed the whole IDE header if one, two or even three pins are broken**.
(1)you can desolder just the single broken pin by heating it up with a soldering iron,then push on the pin itself while the is still in contact with the soldering iron.
(2)you can also pull the broken pin out with a pair of pliers while the soldering iron is still heating the pin.
use the above 1 or 2 to desolder a new pin.
**anyone** with soldering skills can do this.
the size of the pin can be found many places & don`t rule out devices like old broken 2.5 inch hardisk,just make sure the pin is long enough. test before soldering in new pin.
if you use a old hardisk you will have to flatten the pin before soldering.
be sure it`s long enough before soldering.
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I think if I had any chance of being able to repair the board I probably would not have broken the pin off in the first place.
btw, all who have pm'd the board has been promised to AltRN8 as he was first to respond.
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Are you still looking for a new board? Personally (i.e. if I was you) I'd have kept the ROMs... :-/