Problem with Viper 030@28mhz accelerator board

[Cammy]

The random crashes could be caused by a loose expansion connector on the accelerator, which can be fixed by carefully bending each of the wire "teeth" inwards toward each other so the accelerator "bites" down on the edge better. In any case you should throw away the hard drive and install an IDE-CF or SD card adapter and have a silent, solid state drive that won't draw power the way the noisy hard drive does. If you want to use a PC PSU instead of hunting down an A500 one, you could buy very cheap PC PSU adapters from http://www.amigamaniac.com but he seems to have temporarily sold out, so email him and ask if he is planning on making more if you want one. He also sells the right SD and CF card adapters.

[Cammy]

Sure, an A500 PSU would be ideal but they're not always so easy to come by, which is why those PC ones are a handy option to have. I've used a stinking ugly PC PSU with my CD32 for years and don't care too much about what it looks like as long as it's hidden behind the cabinet. :p

At least even without a replacement PSU the A1200 will be useful if the hard drive is replaced with a solid state drive and maybe disconnect the floppy too. My main A1200 is the same as this setup and I use it every day for most of my computing.