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Re: A2000 repairs
« on: March 18, 2009, 04:29:56 AM »
Try removing the '030 cards, should boot with the on board CPU without changing anything. In fact, remove any Zorro cards in there too. Try other outputs (composite). If you have a voltmeter and know how to use it, check the voltage coming out of the power supply.

If you get no drive activity and no display at all, that sounds like it could be a bad power supply or else something critical on the motherboard is dead. Maybe it's something easy to fix like replacing a socketed chip. It could be you have a dead motherboard that will be cheaper to replace than fix.
 

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Re: A2000 repairs
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 08:54:41 PM »
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Tenacious wrote:
IIRC, an Amiga won't boot without DF0: connected, right?


It will boot with a hard drive OR floppy OR both. So, no need for DF0: if there's another boot device.

Even with no drives it will power up and show the kickstart screen prompting you to instert a bootable disk of some kind, which is enough to let you know if it works enough to display SOMETHING on screen.