Possible to determine A500 board revision without opening the case?

[AmmoJammo]

How many different revision boards are there?

I know of 3, 5, 6a and 8a? are there others?

I'm fairly confident you'd be able to work out what revision the board is, but I only have a 6a and 5 to look at, but can easily tell the difference without opening the case...

[AmmoJammo]

turn the case upside down!

you can look through the slot vents under the memory, and see if it has the single row of memory chips, with every second one missing, or the two rows of chips with all being populated...

then at least you'll know if its a rev3/5 or rev6a/8

[AmmoJammo]

A great suggestion! And with the benefit of hindsight - so obvious

Perhaps a combination of this method + something else may be the answer?

I've only got rev5 and rev6a boards... but I believe there are enough differences with components and their locations that you could figure out if it was a rev3 or rev8 as well....

[AmmoJammo]

As said, all the ones I've looked at have the same slots cut out in the metal shield, but have a translucent sheet, which you should still be able to tell if its rev3/5 or rev6/8... Although I'm not sure that helps much

[AmmoJammo]

I had a factory sealed Rev5 with a 1.2 ks, and a keyboard that looked like all my other Amiga 500's?

Anyway, why would you want to know... so you don't have to open it! lol

[AmmoJammo]

Do you know what the difference is between a rev 3 & rev 5 motherboard?

2? :banana: