Anhaedra wrote:
Too late? Did I kill it by turning it on? 
Well the corrosion was the worst actually on the 68000 CPU socket, some of the contacts on the socket are eaten off... So this leaves me with two options i suppose, solder the CPU directly to the board, or solder a new socket in.
Just to be sure, were some of those pins meant to be missing? I have seen some machines cut off certain pins on the CPU (Think it was a Sega Genesis)
If so, which ones?
They're all connected.
Pull the cpu out of the socket and clean everything with alcohol. You might be able to resolder bad connections. But I've never tried it. Or there may be nothing you can do. Replacement 2000 motherboards aren't too expensive.
If it's just the 68000 missing pins, you might get lucky and be able to just replace it with a new one.
(i might have misunderstood, is it the socket that's damaged or the cpu?)
brian
