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Re: I got ripped off on a dead Amiga 4000
« on: July 07, 2009, 03:54:35 AM »
my A4000D was doing something similar.  Turned out there was corrosion around the crystal (I think that's what it's called the 4 Pin DIL connected box on the motherboard) which was causing it to not connect always and I would get a dark gray screen or a black screen with everything cycling but nothing else.  So check those, I think they're called crystals, there should be 2 on the motherboard, they are socketed, so carefully pull them out and then put them back in the board in the exact same way you pulled them out, then try to boot the system.  It's worth a shot.

Nathan

*edit* Flashing green indicates some sort of chip error doesn't it?  When I remove my chip memory my screen flashes green.  BTW is that floppy drive listed really rare?  Someone here in town just gave me one of those drives today.  I put it in my A600 cause the floppy drive is completely toast!
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Re: I got ripped off on a dead Amiga 4000
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 06:20:28 AM »
The question I would ask would be how much it would cost to make a run of these boards?  On top of that whom would we have to contact company-wise to do so?  I'm with everyone else here when it comes to A4000 motherboards.  When I took mine to be repaired by Ed Jeffries, he worked on it, and thought it was fixed, but it didn't work.  He ended up replacing the motherboard for me.  There can't be many of these boards left.  I would try to chip in for something like this if it was possible to do another run on the boards.