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Offline Acill

Re: Troubleshooting a sick A1200
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 21, 2017, 05:19:36 AM »
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Re: Troubleshooting a sick A1200
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2017, 06:04:41 PM »
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;834205

According to the second-to-last post in the above EAB thread, the culprit is C412 capacitor.


This is for an A4000 board. As hese7 suggested, the equivalent for C412 on an A1200 board is C312.
 

Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: Troubleshooting a sick A1200
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2017, 08:26:29 PM »
Quote from: BLTCON0;834284
This is for an A4000 board. As hese7 suggested, the equivalent for C412 on an A1200 board is C312.

Thanks guys!  Hopefully I will have time to crack it open again and mess around with it before the holidays, but it's not looking likely at this point. :(
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Re: Troubleshooting a sick A1200
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2017, 11:53:55 AM »
The right mouse button is pin 9.  Both the E353 resistor (near the port) and C312 capacitor (directly reverse of Paula) are located on the reverse of the motherboard, so you'll have to take it apart.  Unlike the joystick directional pins, the mouse pins don't go through the U34 encoder, so it's a pretty simple circuit.

I'm not quite sure how a bad cap or resister would cause the mouse button to always be on, since an open cap wouldn't matter as the mouse isn't sending power at all, and a short cap would short to ground.  It's possible that somehow pin 7 (+5v) is shorting to pin 9, so check for corrosion around the mouse port and around the R953 resistors (near the C312 cap), as R953 is connected to +5v.
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Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: Troubleshooting a sick A1200
« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2017, 12:13:28 AM »
Finally had a chance to pop the board today.  Initial thought?  These Kickstart sockets look "less than optimal".  Hummm...  :(
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Re: Troubleshooting a sick A1200
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2018, 10:42:18 PM »
To me (If it was mine...) it looks fixable
- but I'd really want to have another motherboard of the same revision side by side for comparison...
and tbh I'd probably want steadier hands too..
I would only attempt it if it was mine though. A job for an expert maybe?..