Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Problem solved!  (Read 2548 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline pwermonger

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 175
    • Show all replies
Re: Amiga 4000 Ex-Micropose Machine Hard Disk Repair?
« on: November 10, 2010, 11:46:00 PM »
I received a 4000 Toaster system that had been used by the NY Knicks at the Gym where they practise. The power supply fan had seized and it overheated so they tossed it. I started disconnecting the two IDE hard drives and the power connector instead of disonnecting pulled the port off the drive, showing that the solder had been melted by the heat. I carefully slid the connector back on and plugged in a SCSI drive. booted the 4000, copied both drives contents over to the SCSI, setup a new IDE and copied it all back over. Booted fine and still works, plus has framegrabs from their practices saved on the drives. Not as interesting as one from microprose but still cool and shows how awesome Amigas are to have survived that.