Amiga 1200 does not work

[scuzzb494]

May I suggest before doing anything else you eliminate the probability of travel sickness. I would very carefully lay the mother board out on the table and remove all peripherals and the like and just have the bottom case and mother board and connect a monitor and mouse and see what happens. I have seen Ebayers and what they do to clean these computers and they wouldn't know about the extra holes to the ROM or the fact that they bent a pin or mucked up connecting something. I have had many machines like this.

On my website there are guides in HELP about what happens when you buy an Amiga and the pitfalls. Plus the cardboard Amiga which is a 1200 bare and running with just the motherboard.
I also had a problem like the one described cus the shielding was earthing across a pin and caused it to fail.

My bet is that its been cleaned and put together badly and or suffering from travel sickness. Something has come loose.

[scuzzb494]

I have today had a good check on my A1200 rev 1d4

- PSU - I used another PSU then it do not reboot every 5-10 sec

- after I disable it and did check the leads on the led to power light. After I put it all back    together the lights now work.

- But mouse is still dead.


I sent email to amikit and they will do repair , they was incredible fast and fantastic helpful so think I will use them when I send them this for a checkup!.

Well done. Strange but the last Amiga 1200 I had a problem with the mouse was broken along with the power lights. I once picked an Amiga up from a guy and I watched with horror as the guys dad was cleaning an A500 with the power on while swapping out connectors on the back. I said that he should avoid plugging stuff in and out like that while the power is on. He just laughed and then offered me the 500. I have also seen forks used for removing floppies and kids pushing sharp objects into PCMCIA slots. Little wonder that the things are busted. My A1200 dates from 1993 and has been used and generally unplugged since that date and still works fine, even the floppy drive. Nothing has ever broken on her. Wonderful machine.

I have brought so many Amigas back to life and just get a very happy glow when I get them working. Many computers suffer from travel sickness. My worst was an A4000T which took a year to get working again. I am pleased to say that all my Amigas work and I wouldn't have it any other way. Certainly helps collecting parts and bits and pieces and never throwing anything away.

Anyway, good luck. Keep your eye open for motherboards on Ebay and the like. Often much cheaper than getting the computer repaired. Also getting junk off Ebay is rewarding. I once bought an A500 marked as a 1200 for next to nothing and when I opened her up she had a Viper 520 inside with a hard drive.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/car_0608/car08401.jpg

Enjoy your 1200. Truly magical.