new (old) user

[ruseone]

hi
new user here
have had an amiga since 1994, standard a500, got a 360mb hd for it and a a570 cd rom drive
in 2000 i got a 4000 25mhz which i upgraded to 17mb and a 2gb hd
i will be getting the amiga out after a few years of non-use (hope it still works) and will probably be coming here for help


i am a mac user (have loads from iie to g5 powermac)

[ruseone]

thanks

i have always been amazed at the amiga and how much better they were than the other computers at the time (pc) but over the years i moved to macs and never looked back

someone at work mentioned the amiga to me today and it reminded me that i have unfinished business with the 4000, namely installing a cdrom drive (could never get it done)

i have loads of macs and no space left to store anything, so unless something like a 3000 or a 1500 comes along, 2 amigas are enough (the wife would go mad otherwise)

i may upgrade the hard drive to a 20gb soon.. just to start

[ruseone]

the battery comment panicked me....

just spent 30 mins getting it out of the cupboard

turned it on, powered up but didnt boot to workbench

opened it, battery looks a little manky

fiddled around with the ide cable and it booted!!!! i am happy  :-D

have 2 mb graphics memory and 16 other... 2112mb hard drive

kickstart 39.106 and workbench 39.29 if that means anything to you guys

first thing, will any ide cable from a pc work? the one in there at the moment is a little beat up

[ruseone]

thanks guys.. battery gone

doesnt look anywhere near as bad as this

http://stuff.vandervossen.net/temporary/mobo_full5.jpg

there was only a small amount of white fuzz around the edge of the battery and on the motherboard

had a panic and pulled the battery out.. had another panic that it wouldnt work after.... just booted it and it works fine....


will give it a good clean and a new ide cable tomorrow

[ruseone]

i have got the cd drive working!!! only took me 7 years of owning the 4000!!!!!

thanks for the advice about the idefix97... shame it keeps giving me a register message

i did try putting a larger hard drive in and didn't manage to get it working

i was confused at first as it didn't boot, then i remembered to change the boot options as the battery had been removed.  i tried a 4gb and 6gb hard drive as a secondary drive instead of the cd drive but couldn't get the amiga to boot

@diskdoctor...  as long as i don't have to use windows (any version ... 3.11 to 7), i don't care