Blizzard 2060 in Amiga 2000 Problem

[ljones]

Unfortunatly I haven't had any luck so far. The problem is I don't quite know what I'm looking for -- checking the capacitors on the A2000's motherboard could be tricky as I could be reading right through the entire board and get a false reading. I'm tempted to try another buster (is that the name?) chip but I don't know if it would make any difference.

I guess what I need to know is what part of the amiga would be most likely to cause the problem I'm having. Though where that is and what is anyones' guess x.x !

All I can say for the moment is the following;

* The system can be tempermental even without the blizzard card and can take a few reboots to get going. Once it's up and running though it goes.

* The A2000s video chips seem to be OK, when the system does boot up the display is ok.

* The sound also appears to be working.

* The blizzard card is certianly alive after many reboots and fiddling about I can finally get it to work, the system works ok after this until power off.

* There is always a dead spider in old computers.

ljones

[ljones]

*nods

I gave that a go on one occasion when I managed to get it going. It didn't say anything about any of the installed cards just which boot device to choose. Though and I'm not sure from memory was it WB3 Roms which tell you about the cards and WB2 Roms don't do this? (I have WB2.x roms in my A2000). That is on really old WB 1.x rom machines, no menu at all, WB 2.x it has a menu but lets you choose only the boot device and with WB 3.x it also does that but also lists cards? (Not sure, been a *long* time since I did anything really with Amiga hardware!).""


  Boot holding down both mouse buttons, when you get to the startup screen you have an option to view boards, click on that.

 If it says the board is working then that eliminates 1 problem. Re seating the chips is always a good thing.

 I'm assuming you have tried other slots the old school in me says the 060 takes the 1st slot and the scsi card next (even though they claim it makes no difference) and you installed the 060 software (pay attention where it installs to just in case you have to remove it)

My problem is really more the case of getting to that point though -- it's getting it to the point where I can do something is the problem. If I were to plug in the 060 and then power up the amiga (for example from cold) I don't get to the point where I can get to do anything with software or menus unfortunatly I'd get a blank or white screen x.x it takes several reboots to get to that point. Once I'm in I'm in but it's that first part that's the problem.

ljones

[ljones]

A while back I sent an email to amigakit asking if they could fix/replace capacitors on old A2000 boards. I saw that they did ones for the A1200 but the A2000 wasn't in their list. Though I got an email from them saying they can fix old A2000 boards.

That's intresting could be well worth a go!

ljones