I got ripped off on a dead Amiga 4000

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The seller should be banned from EBay. He has ripped you off by selling broken hardware.

Most buyers are stupid too though. This is 1993 hardware people. *ALL* Amiga 4000 need repairs. The battery needs to be replaced and also ALL the electrolytic capacitors because they are mostly gone too.

If you buy an Amiga 4000 please keep in mind that it needs at least the above fixes to keep it happy and running. It should affect your bidding price.

Most A4000 need work on the electrolytic capacitors because they used some bad ones and because the Amiga 4000 design makes it run quite hot in there which shortens the life span of those capacitors. Though I suspect that the next few years also Amiga 1200 computers will get problems related to capacitors.

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They don't have to bulge or leak. They just dry out and don't perform their job anymore.

If you have capacitors with green writing on it then believe me, they are broken.

I have replaced the capacitors on 11 Amiga 4000 motherboards now and not a single one had green capacitors that were OK. Some didn't even look like they had leaked but snapped right off after applying some preasure because the pins had corroded underneath the capacitor.

So in short. ALL Amiga 4000 need repairs.