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Offline nscaleworld

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Re: Help! Amiga 3000 video issue
« on: August 06, 2012, 06:02:21 AM »
This is a common problem on Amiga 3000 computers. The cause is battery leakage damaging the traces, corosion in the Denise or Amber IC sockets. The larger caps around the video circuitry could be going bad, or the Commodore Custom Video chip (near Amber) may be bad. I do not recommend installing boards in an Amiga 3000 computer, because the stock power supply is only 135 watts. Even though an Amiga 3000 has expansion slots, it was never really designed to be expanded. Commodore designed the Amiga 3000D as a graphics workstation. At the time, it had the most popular expansions as part of the motherboard- a proccessor board, a memory expansion board, a SCSI controller board, and a FF/SD board all on the motherboard. Commodore never intended for people to actually expand the computer further. When you do, you start having all kinds of problems. I have NEVER had any problems with a STOCK Amiga 3000. Add a graphics board and you will start having problems. BTW, most Amiga software does not need a graphics board, and many people install one because of pure ego.
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Re: Help! Amiga 3000 video issue
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 02:23:36 AM »
The following Amiga models can be expanded, because they have a beefy enough power supply:
 
  • Amiga 2000
  • Amiga 3000T
  • Amiga 4000T
The following Amiga models should not be expanded, because of their low wattage power supply:
 
  • Amiga 3000 (135w psu)
  • Amiga 4000 (140w psu)
If you do decide to upgrade these Amiga models, by installing expansion boards, then the power supply really should be upgraded.
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