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Offline chfriendTopic starter

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Video toaster go boom-boom
« on: January 30, 2012, 01:41:03 AM »
I picked up an Amiga 2000 with a dead power supply and a video toaster setup.  I converted a PC supply and cleaned up the CPU socket corrosion from the battery.  I turned the computer on with the CPU accelerator, Video toaster and TBC card removed and it booted from a floppy.  I then added the accelerator and the TBC back in one at a time and was able to boot from the HD to Workbench.

Then I added the toaster.  Smoke came flying out of the toaster board (It looks like the board with the BNC connectors fried.  Particularly, the 74HC4316N chips smell burnt).  The computer still boots as I can hear the HD booting up to Workbench, but I'm no longer getting any video out of the mono composite port (I don't have an Amiga monitor to connect it to).

Help!  What the heck happened?  I'm guessing Newtek no longer repairs these cards either and I'm hoping I didn't fry the Denise chip.
 

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Re: Video toaster go boom-boom
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 01:49:59 AM »
Upon further inspection, it looks like it may have taken out the GVP 030 processor card, as the computer will not boot with it plugged in, but boots with the board removed.  Wonderful.

Edit:  The computer tries to boot after reseating the processor but gets a "recoverable alert" immediately.  I may have to work some more on the corrosion on the main CPU pins.  Still doesn't answer what happened to the Toaster though
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Re: Video toaster go boom-boom
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 03:20:37 AM »
Further info:  The computer boots without the GVP card and will attempt to boot with the card if I set 68000 fallback to off but will do one of the following:

1) The power light will sit and blink about once a second
2) It will boot from floppy but not see the RAM or HD, I doubt it's seeing the card at all at this point.

For clarification, I appear to have this card: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/combo
 

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Re: Video toaster go boom-boom
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 08:17:54 AM »
Do you have any way to try the GVP card in an other amiga?
 

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Re: Video toaster go boom-boom
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 10:37:52 AM »
i don't unfortunately.