Trying to revive my old trusty A4000D - please help!

[mattiasw]

Hi!

I am new to this new Amiga scene. I used to be quite familiar with the Amiga OS before but now I feel lost. What can I do to revive my A4000D?

My Amiga biography:

A500 bought in 1988
added a second disk-drive and a huge 512 kB memory. 30 MB HDD was added later.

A2000 bought in 1990/91. Imported a 030 card from the US. Costed a fortune. 4MB extra memory added.

A4000D bought in january 93. CD-ROM added 2x spin wao!

The A2000 and the A4000 was used to host a small local BBS called Moroten, first in Skövde then in Göteborg, Sweden.

So please help me reinstate my A4000 again!

[orange]

hmm maybe you should start revival by pressing 'POWER' button.. :roll:

seriously, though, what is wrong with it?

[mattiasw]

Well it starts but it fails to find ENV: etc...

I don't remember in detail but I use a diskette to load 39 roms from disk I think... It was a couple of years ago since I knew that configuartion.

I'll dismantle it and check the batteries, disk etc tomorrow.

[InTheSand]

Welcome to A.org, and good luck with your A4000 revival!

 - Ali

[SuperTurbo]

I would recommend that you buy the OS 3.9 CD if you don´t
have it already... it´s not that expensive and it saves you
the trouble of reinstalling certain drivers one by one.

[TjLaZer]

If you are trying to revive a A4000D the very first thing I would do is open her up and check/remove the NiCad battery next to the SIMM sockets!  If there is leakage you are 99% guaranteed to have RTC problems and if worse Fast RAM problems.  Even if there is no leakage I would highly recommend you remove that NiCard battery now and install a NiHm type or better yet do the Lithium Hack!  (See my photo gallery)

Things to do:

1.  Remove the Battery!
2.  Get a larger 7200rpm IDE HD (20GB or 40GB will be ideal)
3.  Get a fast IDE CD-ROM Drive (Lite-On are good)
4.  Install Kickstart 3.1 ROMs
5.  Buy AmigaOS 3.9 CD from your dealer!

Have fun!

[krize]

Yes, go for OS3.9. And what about gfx card ? You really need one!!

[tonyvdb]

Removal of the old battery is definatly a good idea, I did years ago but never botherd to put another back in and my 4000 still runs great just the clock and date isent set but I dont care.
OS 3.9 also good, look at getting a good graphics card unless you want to install a Video Toaster card for some real fun :-D
and get a backup 68040 CPU board as they do fail.
and lastly put a fan in or outside of the case on the left side to keep it cool.

[orange]

don't forget to buy PFS3, it rocks..
BTW, if its networked, setting time with atomic clock is relatively easy
and if you wanna play games, register WHDLoad

[mattiasw]

OS 3.9 also good, look at getting a good graphics card unless you want to install a Video Toaster card for some real fun :-D

and get a backup 68040 CPU board as they do fail.
and lastly put a fan in or outside of the case on the left side to keep it cool.

Where is the best place to look for hardware, like 040-card, gfx-card etc, network-card.?

[orange]

If you got money to burn, go to ebay. Otherwise, I'd reccomend submiting an ad in local computer newspaper..

[SuperTurbo]

Since it seems to like you live in Sweden you should check
out Tradera, they have an Amiga
section. Tends to be somewhat cheaper than E-Bay I´ve heard people said...

If you want to buy from stores try these Swedish dealers:

GGS-Data and Guru-Meditation

Otheer good stores inside EU (With more items to buy):

Vesalia
AmigaKit
Power Computing