I am desperately in need of help with refurbishing an Amiga 500.

[scuzzb494]

Start from the beginning.. Four things.

Is this an Amiga 500 and not an Amiga 500 Plus. [ Red light or green light also please]

Do you have the official Amiga Workbench disk. If so which version. Is it green with say 1.2 or 1.3 on it.

When you turn the unit over can you see what is called a trapdoor with a tiny slot. On the base and NOT the side. Can you carefully prize the slot open and if there is anything in there tell us what it is. We are probably going to remove that if its there.

One tiny point... I assume you have a mouse. Don't pull the mouse or joystick in and out while the unit is active. If they are games you are playing, which one in particular gives the error message and describe exactly what you are seeing... ie blue box with message or grey box with message.

[scuzzb494]

OK, have found a revelation. I am able to play certain games absolutely fine via Joystick port 2. Still no luck with Joystick port 1. So the RAM problem is obviously due to lack of it running at 512k and the port 1 doesn't affect 1 player gaming but is obviously still a minor problem at this point. Any suggestions at this point?

Thank you all again for being so helpful, it is honestly more than appreciated.

Mike.

Sounds like all is generally fine. Did you say you had tried the computer with a mouse. Put this in port 1. I wouldn`t mess with anything just yet.

The Amiga OS is 1.3 from the boot screen. I am also assuming the machine boots fine. Once you have confirmed that you have the mouse connected and the machine booted we can check a few other things. Dont mess with anything.. please. The error here is always to go for the hardware when infact it is likely to be .... wait for it... user error. Sorry for that. Opening the machine up, inserting joysticks etc, checking cables and wires just confuses matters.