Warning!! Your Amiga may be dying right in front of you! Check the battery!!

[4pLaY]

Your right its a BIG problem ive been buying / selling used Amigas for a few years now and 80% of the big box Amigas that ive got (quite a few) have needed to change it ASAP some to late also.

[4pLaY]

The batteryes usual start leaking when the computer ends up not beeing used for a while (a few months) and you will usualy see the problem with A2000s as most of the time you will get these from people/companies wich have fased them out a good while ago its a big problem for people thinking "nah id rather collect it in the closet then sell it" before that is done people should really remove the battery! a while ago i was thinking of macking a small hack to make them able to use coin shapped batteryes but the market and interest for bix boxed Amigas/and amigas in general  have dropped (at least here) so now instead i remove them and sell them without batteryes.

[4pLaY]

Your lucky this problem is only for Big Boxed Amigas A2000/A3000/A4000! there is a few ram cards for A500/etc that use these barrel shapped batteries but its far from a problem! worst case scenario the ram card dies but if you have one just check it out! as for owners of big boxed Amigas you should really check the motherboard even if you use it daily.

[4pLaY]

if you have the coin shapped in your A4000 you are one of the lucky few that have the last rev A4000 mobo where they finaly realised that the barrel shapped battery was no good and replaced it! i have an A4000T (escom) and these also use the coin shapped ones.

[4pLaY]

If its green it has leaked a long time ago ;-) and no its not good so do remove it and try and get all that "green stuff" away if there is some on the mobo a tooth brush is a nice thing to use :-).