A2000 Hardware Questions

[Kronos]

1: switching between NTSC and PAL should work, hold both mouse-buttons on power-up (or after reset) to get in to the early startup menu

2: 8MB HD Sure it's not 80MB ?

3: Accelerators either go into the MMU-slot (the slighly shorter one directly left of the drive/PSU-bridge) or directly into the 68000-socket (if the were made to also work in A500s)

4. It shows Kickstart 37.175 which is 2.0, you'll need Kickstart 40.xxx (3.1). New ROM should be available at Vesalia,Alinea,AmigaKit or 2nd hand on ePay.
Swapping them means pulling one IC out of it's socket and replacing it with the new one.

5. This should work, but don't expect good picture quality. Better (but somewaht more expensive) option would be the IndivisonECS (look for it the shops listed above) which will allow you to run higher resolutions at execleent picture quality.

6. Well what do you want to do with this A2000 ?

7. Don't forget to check the motherboard for leaking a battery. If it hasn't been removed do it now (even if it's not yet leaking)

[Kronos]

What you got there is a kick-switch (why it's populated with 2.04 and 3.1 instead of the usual 1.3 + 2.0 OR 3.1 is beyond me ...) switching is most likely triggered by holding (only) the left mousebutton at power-up.

No just the 040 CPU won't help you, you need a full accelerator-card (which also comes with more RAM, without you won't feel much speedup).

The 8MB drive isn't an actual drive but just a partition on the 1GB HD. It being full could either mean that it's really full or that it's somehow corrupted.

[Kronos]

Yes that blue barrel is the battery and it seems it's allready off on one side. Wiggling it of will do the job just fine. Replacement is not strictly needed, but when you do it replace with a coin-battery + dioed (the old battery is recharchargeble so you have to block charging while the A2000 is powered on).