My A600 is dead

[balrogsoft]

Hi to all, i'm new on this forum but not on the Amiga world, i'm an old Amiga user(i have an Amiga 500, 600, 1200), i made some programs for Amiga (you can search balrog on aminet if someone are interested).

I bought an Amiga 600 from ebay on december of last year, it was working very nice two weeks, but last weekend it dead, the problem is that it crash before show the kickstart screen, after crash the Amiga don't show a guru message, when i insert a disk it crash also. I tried to disconnect all the hardware to know if the problem is located on the floppy disk, keyboard, kickstart, and it seems to have the same problem with the motherboard only. I don't know what can be the problem, i think that my A600 should show a colored screen if it have a serius hardware problem. I hope that someone can help me.

Bye.
Balrog Soft

[balrogsoft]

I forget to say that i tried with three different power supplies, the power supply of A600, other of A500, and other of a PC tower that i have mounted with my A1200, and it have the same problems. And a few secods after power on the power led flash like a crash but without the guru message.

[balrogsoft]

I solved the problem, i bought a A600 motherboard 2D revision (last revision of A600 with a revision on Gayle chip also), and now i have my A600 with a 512mb harddisk and 2mb of chip. Now the problem is transfer programs from pc to my A600, my notebook don't have floppy disk, and i'm waiting a CF pcmcia reader for a fast transfer of big files between my A1200, A600 and my notebook. Thanks to all...

[balrogsoft]

Last night i was playing to Hired Guns (installed on HD) with a friend, after half hour the controllers started to make strange things, joystick don't work to up, and mouse don't work very well with vertical movements. This problems appeared when i received the motherboard, but i changed the a600 psu for my old a500 psu (more weight) that have more power, and the problems disappeared until yesterday. I don't know if it can be a problem of power, or if it's a problem with motherboard... My A600 have this hardware connected, 2.5" HD of 512 mb, 1 Mb chip ram extension, mouse and joystick, and i use an old A500 psu, that i think that must be enough.

[balrogsoft]

I think that i solved the problem, it was the mouse, i tried with other mouse and work perfectly. The hd was not working very nice when i used the mouse and the original A600 psu (eg. s directory was corrupted after install wb and reboot), but without the mouse it works perfectly. It is very strange that a broken mouse can cause this behavior to the computer, but i was using my amiga this weekend with other mouse, and it works very nice. One question more, when i use a rgb wire to a scart or rgb connection of tv, it seem to change the brightness when i open a window on wb, it appeared to be darker. I don't remember if this is normal...

[balrogsoft]

yes, it something like this, the size of the window also affect, i can't try my A600 with my Amiga monitor i don't have it on the city that i work, i have connected my A600 on television.