Guidance on selling a A4000 and A3000

[MarkMaker2]

I had a can of compressed air that I forgot at the office. Will be blowing everything out tonight.

The 3000's HD is definitely not attached with any screws -- the entire drive is movable but not removable because something unseen is holding it from under closer to the front of the Amiga (so basically not the power or SCSI cable which are at the back and clearly visible). Removing the whole drive tray might work or at least give me a better view.



So I can just snap off the battery when I get home tonight?  It has no impact on the computer's functioning?

Does the 3000 have a better I should be looking for?

[MarkMaker2]

Thank you. I'll check for the 3000 battery tonight.

I had just figured out the drive mounting on the 3000 before checking in. When I did I saw that the drive was not connected to the computer. Plugged it in and now it works.

There is nothing on the computer except for Workbench 2.1 and the PhonePak software. I'd like to test the Ethernet card. Can't see how I'd test PhonePak without a landline.

[MarkMaker2]

Thanks I'll try the double mouse button to check cards -- Phonepak software is installed but I don't have a landline to plug it into.

Lost a few days due to being out of town. I'm leaning towards Amibay over e-Bay -- hopefully by Thursday or Friday should figure out what a fair price is and  status of the 4000.

[MarkMaker2]

For the people who PMed me. So sorry I didn't respond. Only today did I notice I had a bunch of notifications and when I clicked on them I saw the PMs. Going through and responding to them now.

Only problem with Amibay is most of the users are in Europe. When I listed my A3000 on there several people wanted it, but when they found out the shipping costs they lost interest. If you list it there make sure you put a notice here as well for the max. number of viewers.

Yeah I noticed it was 80% Euros, 10% British Pounds and then maybe 10% USD. Since I discovered I have PMs with people interested I'm going to try to make a deal here.

Goal is to get the A4000 working but either way I'm going to clean them up, get more detailed specs, take some better pictures, and have a price for the people who PMed me by the weekend.

[MarkMaker2]

The A4000 now boots.

I had previously tried to use an A520 to connect it to my TV but got nothing. Today I realized my Dell monitor has an RCA input. Plugged it in and got the purple screen with the ROM 3.0

Connected the harddrives and I got various states of Workbench -- basically I'd get a gray screen that said Workbench but no icons. Sometimes I would get a clock followed by just gray screen. Finally this last time after the clock my Samsung which is connected to the Cybervision flashed Light My Fire followed by Workbench booting normally which was then followed by a popup saying System3.1 had a bad sector and a number.

Good news is A4000 seems to be operational. Bad news is it looks like the IDE drive is dying. I have an extra 40GB IDE drive that I'm not using and which I know is currently problem free. The A4000 also has a SCSI drive. I have no idea why I'm booting off the IDE rather than the SCSI.

Connecting the SCSI drive without the IDE boots to an AmigaDOS screen on the RCA output.

Anyway I'm happy with the outcome. Thank you all for the help. I'll post again when I have some pictures with a decent camera.