Amiga 2000

[mrmoonlight]

Hi, just got hold of a Amiga 2000 off eBay and I am really made up ,but I have to say I know nothing about them ,never the less it maybe a challenge to see if I can with help get it working ok and ask if any one knows much about them, here's a few pics ,best wishes Brian.


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[mrmoonlight]

first thing to do is remove that green leaking battery off the board. it looks like it is fuzzy and ever day left on it will cause more damage. the machine will operate fine without the battery.

We need some more information as to what the machine is or is not doing to help you.
After removing the battery take some close up pics of that area.

Hi it is still in transit at the moment but I I could see by the pic there was a problem with battery but the seller said it had been replaced about 8yrs ago ,and I was told the unit light lit up but there were no monitor on it so ,I am only guessing at the moment that there will be other problems any way here's the pic .

[mrmoonlight]

Nice! Looks like a decent system with some upgrades already. A2000's can be a lot of fun. +1 to get rid of that battery! :hammer:

Hi I cant tell what is a upgrade and what is not lol knowing nothing about it ,here's the battery I was told it was replaced about 8 yrs ago

[mrmoonlight]

If you want a battery on there, you should replace it with something like this:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1093

Hi thank you for advice but if the Amiga will still work without the battery
I don't really want to try soldering a new one to the motherboard,lol
is it easy to remove the battery without damaging any thing ,best wishes Brian.
 
 ps  
    Here's some of the updates
 its been upgraded to Kickstart 3.1 and it still has its factory fitted Commodore SCSI card complete with an old Apple SCSI HDD which I think has Workbench 3.5, it also has a SCSI CD drive installed, the cable is dissconcted

[mrmoonlight]

Thats a nickel–metal hydride battery already so no need to remove or replace at this time. Looks fine to me.
The original batteries were Ni Cad and leaked badly.

Well that's good news lol
         truly grateful my friend, best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

When I replaced my battery I soldered a CD audio cable with 1 end cut off and put the battery on a small board with connector pins on it, then mounted it behind the LED's, no ISA slot used so fits great and I can remove it easy for replacement, no removing the motherboard!

Chris

Thanks very much and that sounds a very good way of making things a lot easer ,best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

Hi I have a few cables that I am not sure where they go ,can any one tell me where the two loose cables should go ,I know there was a accelerator but that was removed ,and I notice there is no power cable connected to the hard drive ,as any one any idea please , these are the sellers instructions
  you will have to fit the SCSI cable back on to the commodore scsi card and the led for the scsi card, everything's there ready but I unplugged it all as it was originally on the accelerator card, I simply put the scsi hard drive back on its original place.

[mrmoonlight]

Uh, do you see the 50-pin "header" right next to the hard drive? The one labeled CN6 with a "1" at the bottom; this is the SCSI controller connector. There should be a power connector for the hard drive as well that says, "power." A short 2 to 3 inch cable used to connect the CN6 to the SCSI connector on the hard drive and a short power connector with two female ends connected the one below the CN6 to the hard drives power.

Does this seem plausible?

Hi thanks I cant get a power connector on to the hard drive because there's not enough room ,is it just the six screws that hold the hard drive in place as I need to remove it to gain access to it ?

[mrmoonlight]

You're killing me, man. Since I happen to have an A2091 sitting right next to me on my shelf, I made the attached picture for you. Plug the 50-pin ribbon cable into the 50-pin header on the board, and the 3-pin power LED cable into the 3-pin power header on the board. As @danbeaver said the 50-pin cable should only go one way, you'll want to match pin 1 to pin 1 on the cable (usually red). The LED cable can go either way. If for some reason it doesn't work, try flipping it around.

The power cable is the four-pin molex connector. It can only plug in one way and should be obvious.

I hope this helps, my hope and prayer is that maybe someday everyone will start using the built-in forum tools to attach pictures, instead of linking to external sites. Sorry, pet peeve of mine.

Hopefully there's no accelerator-specific software on that hard drive that will prevent it from booting with the accelerator removed. You'll probably want to format it and do a fresh OS install, anyway. Good luck!

Hi I have installed the 50 pin ribbon cable and the led ,does that look ok

[mrmoonlight]

Well, yes, pretty much; but I don't see the power supply to the hard drive.

lol , yes I am going to move the hard drive so I can connect the power cable
and can I ask again about the power socket just below the 50 pin header do I need to put a power supply in that as well ,

[mrmoonlight]

NO! It is there to supply power TO the Hard Drive.

Hi I have a three inch cable female is that the one that goes between the two

[mrmoonlight]

:laughing:Interesting Card from your PhotoBucket site; have only a few relatives?
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LOL you have a good chuckle my friend lol

[mrmoonlight]

Three inches sounds right -- it is female-to-female; to the best of my knowledge, that is the only card with such an odd power (cable) arrangement.

I have the short cable connected as pic and it goes in to the power connector on the hd,does that look ok,sorry could not get a good pic of where the other end is going but it is going into the 4 pin power on the hd

[mrmoonlight]

Yes, that should work. You plug the 4-pin connector on the board directly into the 4-pin connector on the hard drive, the shorter the cable the better. As an alternative I believe you could power the hard drive directly from the A2000's PSU and plug NOTHING into the connector on the board, this is if you didn't have the special Female-to-Female cable.

 Thanks ever so much for all the help ,I do not have the monitor cable until
     sat so I cant try it properly but I did give a quick boot and she started and all the drives were working as I could see them flashing and hear them so hopefully all seems well ,again a huge thanks to every one ,best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

Three inches sounds right -- it is female-to-female; to the best of my knowledge, that is the only card with such an odd power (cable) arrangement.

Thanks for persevering my friend ,I cant try the monitor until the cable arrives but she fired up and all the drives were doing there job so hopefully all is well ,I will let you know when monitor is connected ,but again many thanks ,very best wishes Brian.:laughing: