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Offline NefiemusTopic starter

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Amiga 2000HD - White Screen
« on: February 18, 2008, 07:43:54 PM »
Hi there,

I've been looking online for this one, and as far as I know, white screens on boot means that the hardware is not properly initialized.

I've got that Amiga in this summer, it didn't had any power supply. So I took an ATX power supply and wired it on the Amiga. The only problem, is that the power supply doesn't have any -5V output (kinda weird, but it's a Dell, pretty normal).

So right now, the Amiga does boot, but with a white screen. Is the -5V output the cause of the problem? Is it necessary? And if so, is there any easy way to obtain a -5V :P

I use the RCA video connector if that helps,

Thanks,
Jason
 

Offline gdanko

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Re: Amiga 2000HD - White Screen
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2008, 07:57:11 PM »
Red - Bad ROM
Yellow - CPU Exception Before Bootstrap Code is Loaded
Green - Bad Chip RAM or Agnus (check seating of Agnus)
Black - No CPU
White - Expansion passed
Grey - CPU Passed

Constant white is failure of CPU.
 

Offline NefiemusTopic starter

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Re: Amiga 2000HD - White Screen
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2008, 08:02:17 PM »
Umm, well it's white, and after around 8 seconds, the screen blink and it gets white again, so... it means my CPU's dead?

EDIT: Also, the battery leaked a good lot in there, maybe just by deep cleaning the region? The socket pins are green-ish, how can I clean that?
 

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Re: Amiga 2000HD - White Screen
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2008, 09:12:36 PM »
 Carefully remove the CPU, clean it with a soft sand paper (don't EVER use iron wool!), check the motherboard CPU traces and remake those who failures.
Goodbye people.

I\'ll pop on from time to time, RL is acting up.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000HD - White Screen
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2008, 09:49:11 PM »
I'll try that, if it doesn't work, I'll just ask my uncle if he wants to give me an Amiga eheh