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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by F0LLETT on November 10, 2025, 03:08:56 PM »
Quote from: marco920 on November 10, 2025, 02:23:50 PM
I have 2 A1200s and on both, the BLIZZARD IV 123050MHZ doesn't work. I also changed the power supply. I tried the BLIZZARD only with the CPU only, only RAM, only COOPROCESSOR but always a black screen and no IC or CIP gets hot or warm....they all stay cold.

Hang on, this is getting confusing.

Forget the Blizzard card first, pointless doing any tests until you know you have a working A1200 motherboard.
You said earlier, that the A1200 does not boot even without blizzard. You just get a yellow screen.
Now you say you have 2x A1200's and blizzard does not work on either?

Your going about this all the wrong way, so to clarify.

You have 2x A1200 computers fully working?
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by marco920 on November 10, 2025, 02:23:50 PM »
I have 2 A1200s and on both, the BLIZZARD IV 123050MHZ doesn't work. I also changed the power supply. I tried the BLIZZARD only with the CPU only, only RAM, only COOPROCESSOR but always a YELLOW screen and no IC or CIP gets hot or warm....they all stay cold.
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: A1200NG- tinkering
« Last post by broadblues on November 10, 2025, 02:23:01 PM »
Quote
  GParted very helpfully allowed me to stretch the 64GB image to make use of the extra space. Save, done.  Shove back in A1200NG or A600GS whatever and boot.

The main System Menu will detect if a cards partition is smaller than the sdcard size and offer to resize it on next reboot.
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by Boing-ball on November 10, 2025, 12:37:09 PM »
Quote from: F0LLETT on November 10, 2025, 11:53:37 AM
Highly doubt it will be because of a cap. A1200 can run with no SMD (except 47mf power ones) caps.
If it were a cap, it would have popped. You know when one of them goes pop, white smoke, bad smell and top will be missing or loose.

I would say, remove board from everything and have a really good look around the board. As yellow screen is CPU exception.
Check entire board (forget about Blizzard for now), there has to be something burnt up, if you smelt it. As BB already said, you may have missed smoke.

Could also be PSU, you got another to test, with just the A1200 mainboard (no Blizzard).

Is the 030 CPU socketed? I know most are. Have you tried removing this and reseating? Does the card also come with the optional FPU? Try removing this. Have had faulty FPU chips before now stopping systems from working.

For anything like SMD, the. It’s a case of probing and possibly desoldering and removal.

All the best.
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 e BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Aiuto
« Last post by marco920 on November 10, 2025, 12:01:27 PM »
I've already used another power supply without BLIZZARD, but the A1200 always gives a yellow screen and 9 power blinks.
Could it be the SMDs?
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by F0LLETT on November 10, 2025, 11:53:37 AM »
Highly doubt it will be because of a cap. A1200 can run with no SMD (except 47mf power ones) caps.
If it were a cap, it would have popped. You know when one of them goes pop, white smoke, bad smell and top will be missing or loose.

I would say, remove board from everything and have a really good look around the board. As yellow screen is CPU exception.
Check entire board (forget about Blizzard for now), there has to be something burnt up, if you smelt it. As BB already said, you may have missed smoke.

Could also be PSU, you got another to test, with just the A1200 mainboard (no Blizzard).
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by Boing-ball on November 10, 2025, 11:52:47 AM »
Quote from: marco920 on November 10, 2025, 10:10:28 AM
I own a BLIZZARD 123050MHZ IV non-SCSI. There are no signs of burning and no integrated circuits get hot. The Blizzard costs €400, buying it again is not an acceptable solution; I would like to repair both.

So to do that. You will need some sort of Electronics knowledge. An Oscilloscope and Multimetre to check circuitry.
Or send it off to someone who maybe prepared to look and possibly repair this.

Good Luck 👍🏻
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: List of working/non working Apps on AmiBench
« Last post by asm1 on November 10, 2025, 11:15:07 AM »
Quote from: F0LLETT on November 10, 2025, 09:23:32 AM
It should have been removed. As thats not an updater as yet.
Only ever update from the GS/NG system menu.

Okie dokes.  Good to know. I did think it odd that there was potentially two ways to do the same thing.
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by marco920 on November 10, 2025, 10:10:28 AM »
I own a BLIZZARD 123050MHZ IV non-SCSI. There are no signs of burning and no integrated circuits get hot. The Blizzard costs €400, buying it again is not an acceptable solution; I would like to repair both.
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga1200 and BLIZZARD 123050mhz broker!? Help
« Last post by Boing-ball on November 10, 2025, 10:01:53 AM »
Quote from: marco920 on November 10, 2025, 09:55:42 AM
Yes! It doesn't start without BLIZZARD.... but I've described how the A1200 behaves without BLIZZARD 3. I wanted some information to understand what it could depend on and what the problem could be.

Without witnessing the magic smoke (Will be a quick white smoke). Then it could be anything that’s gone wrong. Possibly one of the Capictors? Have a look around for any burn damage. Apart from that couldn’t say.
I would purchase a new Blizz 1230 mark IV. It’s better than the MK3. Had both and the very rare SCSI addon for the MK3 was not very good. The ScSI MKIV for the MKIV 1230 was very good 👍🏻
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