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Worth fixing damaged A600 1mb chip ram expansion?
« on: April 18, 2011, 06:45:33 PM »
The 1MB chip ram expansion (trapdoor) of my A600 is damaged and i want to know if its worth my hassle to fix it.

Basically, it does work because when i boot up into workbench it does show that the A600 has 2MB of chip ram but there are many crashes such as software errors or frozen screens.

This does not seem to affect games that are "NDOS"

I noticed there some damage to the connecters attached to the socket and also some traces are black but don't look damaged. See attached picture.

This damage was done by the RTC battery which has now been removed.

How should i go about fixing it? I am not the best at soldering.
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Re: Worth fixing damaged A600 1mb chip ram expansion?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 08:46:01 PM »
@SAVE2600 - Yeah I'll have a go cleaning it up and fixing it. Nothing to lose i guess.

@Damiga - Ouch that looks even worse than mine. Already have an A1200 but i would like my A600 to eventually run WHDLoad nicely. Plus its small :)
A1200HD- Blizzard 1230IV / 64Mb / Kick 3.1 / OS 3.9 / 20GB HD
A4000 040 @33Mhz -Kick 3.1 / 16MB
A2000 Rev4.4 - \'030 @25Mhz / 8MB / Kick 3.1 / ClassicWB
CD32 -     Stock (W/ 2 CD32 Controllers]
A500 Plus - 68000 / 2MB Chip / 2Mb Fast / 2.04/1.3 / A590 / A570
A600HD - 2MB Chip / 8MB Fast / 2GB CF HD / Kick 3.1
CDTV

PowerMac G4 1Ghz (MorphOS / Leopard)

[url]http://amigamap.com/us