Blizzard 2060 in Amiga 2000 Problem

[lassie]

So that I can check the board over more easily I've completely taken the motherboard right out of the A2000's case. So it's now just an empty tin box.

Going to give it a clean first already went over it quickly with the hoover and removed the obiligatory dead spider and cobweb. That didn't fix the fault though. :roflmao:

Now the board is out I should be able to get to look at stuff more easily. A quick look at the board reveals no sign of any broken components and (less now one dead spider and cobweb) the bottom of the board looks ok.

Pity that removing the dead spider and cobweb didn't fix the fault. I'd have loved to have written on here that it did. Imagine if it did fix it though I think that would be the most weird fault report (and fix) ever -!

Now comes the more complex task of checking components!

**UPDATE 2**

Ok I've started a quick preliminary look at the capacitors. Looks as though because I can't really remove them (I'm guessing the amiga board is a multilayer board and I don't want to ruin any solder pads or tracks) plus my hand shakes a bit I won't be able to determine if the capacitors themselves are in spec, i.e. what they read all that easily. Only one read correctly all the others that I tried (not tried many yet) read "overload". So for now it looks as if all I can tell is if they are either 'dead' or 'alive'.

** UPDATE 3**

Amigakit dosen't look like they support replacing capacitors on A2000 boards -----> http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=932 it appears to be A600/1200/4000/CD32 only .x.x

ljones

Hi did you get this 060 to work?

[lassie]

One of my stock Amiga 2000 does the same i have to boot a few times before it works. I found a place on the motherboard that when i push there, it works otherwise i can boot up 10 times before it work. It is very strange, but when i push there it always seem to work, but then i am forced to have it open a lot.

[lassie]

This is almost always caused by bad chip to socket contact,a socket with a broken internal pin,and/or corroded chips and socket pins. you can pull each chip and check it and the sockets.lightly sand the chip pins  with a piece of 600grit paper (very lightly!) and reinstall the chips. If that doesn't cure it suspect a socket.

Hi i will give that a try, because it is a pain to have the Amiga open alot of the time almost everytime i have to play a game, i will have to open and push, that is not funny in the long run. But she is also 23 years old soon and other than that she works perfect