Crazy upgraded A2000 video toaster/graphics/recording system

[orb85750]

Is this system worth fixing?  It's an A2000 first-generation Toaster with DPS PAR (personal animation recorder) and dual DPS TBC IV cards.  In addition, there is a GVP Spectrum graphics card hooked up to a GVP SCSI II 68030 accelerator combo card -- plus 2-3 (2 working) hard drives.  The mouse port is bad, making the whole system very painful to explore at this point.  Does anyone have any experience using a system similar to this for recording and editing video?  (This is one very tightly packed A2000, realized as soon as the cover is removed.)  Thanks for your informed opinion(s).  -Dave

[orb85750]

nishtek wrote:
Whats worth fixing?  have you determined what is working and what is broken?  The mouse or the mouse port?  
First strip all cards and attempt booting off floppy to see if mouse works.
Mouse related items to check:
- Paula, Denise.
- 8520s
- 74LS157
- EMI 1401 5.1 ohm Res
troubleshoot in this order.
without working/tested spare pare its impossible to pinpoint. :-P

I should have been more clear.  The mouse is absolutely fine (as tested on my other Amiga).  The mouse port is faulty for sure.  Thanks for the tips on troubleshooting.  I suppose I need to decide whether to fix and keep this system vs. stripping and selling off the parts.  Was just wondering if either choice seems foolish to anyone here?  Maybe someone with experience will tell me that this is a great system that rivals an A4000 toaster/flyer.  Or maybe it's really an inferior set-up and not really worth all the time and bother?  I'm pretty new to video and I have zero experience with Amiga graphics expansion cards and DPS PAR cards.