« on: January 16, 2011, 10:55:31 PM »
So I killed her! Now, that wasn't very funny at all. First I managed to rescue this one A500, when I noticed it had cracked soldering on motherboard where sqaure power socket attached, the disk drive didn't work because of that. After repair it worked fine.
But now I busted whole thing, when tried my "newly power hacked" (used ATX to power both) A590 on this poor thing, before I mated it to A1k. By mistake I din't doublecheck everything and it shorted somewhere where I put extra wires underneath! 
Well lucky me, A590 was fine, but not so A500. Nasty smelling smoke protruded under the case and it didn't power up anymore.
So after opening cover I noticed smoke traces under RF-shield where LF1 "line filter" sits, right behind that sqare power socket! I think fault is there, no power goes to machine. So what do you think, can I get that component somewhere to try repair or should I use this machine for parts?
Here is pix of this component (not my burned one)--->
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=7327514.jpg
BTW... Now A590 works fine with A1000, only using Amiga power supply, no externals.
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=7323561.jpg
Ouch! I'm glad that didn't happen to me when I wired an adapter for an ATX power supply I was thinking of using in my Powermac(it just didn't work). But those are the risks you take when you decide to undertake such a project.
You have my sympathy.
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