Red has a new amiga!! (Update 12/23/08 - It lives!)

[nine3o]

What does it display when you power on?

Is this an o4o version? (Says o4o on the front panel)

Does the screen display any colours or is it grey in colour, almost white?

[nine3o]

No colors, as a matter of fact no CPU activity at all it seems. I hit the caps lock button and the light stops coming on after the 6th time. The last thing I did was remove the CPU card and set jumpers for onboard 030, still nothing

Hmm, sounds exactly like my A3kT when it died.  The key assembly fell apart and there was one pin wedged between the motherboard and a zorro slot.  It ended up killing my CPU.

And the symptoms you have are identical to my machine when i would power on.

Is the power on LED also dimly lit?

Even if you try to use another CPU card, the o3o A3kT's still use some of the circuitry on the o3o to run a CPU slot card.

EDIT:

Here is the post of the issues I had with my A3kT

[nine3o]

@Red,

Make sure you get all the brass pins out of your machine, what killed my A3kT motherboard was one of those pins wedged between the Zorro slot and the motherboard, shorting out some of the pins on the zorro slot.

I have long since sold my A3kT, other wise I would of told you which wires to short together... I just don't remember...  Seems my memory is going to sh*t since my surgery. :-(

[nine3o]

Surgery? I hope all is well  :-?

So far so good, had open heart surgery.  One of my valves was not working properly so had to go under the knife to get it repaired (thankfully that is the best scenario for me, the other option was replacement).  But since then my memory is not what it used to be, I think it's all those drugs :-)

But that's off topic here.  I wish I could remember which wires were crossed on mine.  But I think you should be able to just unplug the connector from the blue wire harness to the key assembly, it should boot up with the exception of your keyboard working.  

But again this is based on a memory that is slipping. :-(

[nine3o]

Hey Red,

Did you get this running yet or still sorting thru all those wonder full boxes of Amiga goodness?