Is My Amiga 600 Dying?

[HopperJF]

 :-(

I set up my Amiga 600 the other day and my Commodore 1084S monitor, unfortunately I have lost the cable so have ordered one from eBay.

I decided to fire up the miggy to see if everything was still in ship shape since it has served me well for nearly 10 years. Unfortunately it didn't seem too good. When I switched her on the disk drive made a brief noise like it was reading a disk, but then there was no clicking, it wasn't searching for a disk.

I tried leaving it on for 10 minutes to see if it just needed warming up after being in storage for around 18 months but still no joy.
I put in a bootable disk but still no joy, it doesn't seem to be searching for a disk.
I can't really say much else until I get the monitor cable but I'm hoping it will be something simple like the floppy drive.

[HopperJF]

Tomas wrote:
I was trying to post earlier, but internet went down just as i pressed the submit button..
But anyways.. Is this a stock a600 or has it been expanded? If it is expanded, then try to remove all kinds of expansions and see if that helps.
You might also want to check the psu and check that all chips/roms are seated properly.

It is a stock A600.

I will open her up in a minute and see if everything looks OK.


Edit: Never actually noticed before, but this A600 has NEVER been opened!!! So I have now, some 16 years after it was made, ripped the warranty seal!

The board itself looks brand new, everything looks fine but I will carefully clean it over, but other than some dust over the RF ports it all looks fine and clean.

[HopperJF]

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