Hi all, I've been trying to fix my Amiga 500, which has been in the loft for many years. Initially, it was getting as far as a white screen without the insert disk image. As part of troubleshooting, I interested a Diag ROM. The ROM seemed to get stuck asking to hold down a key on the keyboard or pressing the right mouse key. Both actions did nothing to progress the Diag ROM. Trying to figure out what was wrong, I read some advice about reseating the board chips. I did this. Following the reseating of Fat Agnus, the ROM started getting stuck at "No memory found. System halting". Oh dear. I tried removing Fat Agnus and it did seem like one of the pins was out of place. After reinserting, I still had the same issue. After a couple of attempts at reseating, it still had the same issue. I noticed that it looked like maybe one of the pins in the socket might not have been making contact with the cihip, so I pushed it out a little and the bloody thing broke straight off the socket :-(
I was hoping for some advice on the best way to resolve this issue. I'm not sure if I should have a go at desoldering and fitting a new PLCC socket to the board or if there is some other crafty fix that anyone knows that might allow one to fix/bodge/over come the broken pin?
Thanks in advance.
