selling up

[sheepz]

Hi, i am planning on selling my power tower amiga 1200. It has a blizzard 240/040 ppc card with 64meg of ram. Also has a fitted bvison graphics card. It has a cd rom, writer and 250meg zip drive. All the graphics card/ppc work but the softwear is not set up right.

I am selling as i cant get it to work properly and am just out of my depth. my 040 1200 is more than enought i think.Any ideas how much i should sell it for? or should i break it and sell it in bits?

Thanks alot.

Barry

[Cyberus]

Hey there.
I recommend you sell it in bits for the maximum ££££

Also, there are a couple of other Amigans on here from Aberdeen - they may be able to help you get the PPC card working. Otherwise you will only be able to sell it as 'untested' or 'as-is' and only get peanuts for it.

Let me try and remember, is it Blobrana and Vincent who are from Aberdeen?

[amigadave]

I suggest that you find some experienced Amiga user that lives local to you to help you setup and get working all those good parts before you give up and sell it.  It sounds like you would have a nice system that you would be happier with instead of just your other 040 A1200.  If that can't be done, you will probably make more money selling the parts separately, but since you have not been able to get them to work together, you really cannot guarantee those parts and must sell them "as is" which will lower the prices you get for them.  I hope you can find someone that can come help you put it all together properly.  Find an Amiga club that is not too far from where you live.  Even if you have to take the whole lot of parts on a long drive to have them set it up for you, it would be worth it.

Good luck!

[doctorq]

If I were you I would either split it up, or get the system working correctly. If you split, I think only the Blizzard PPC and BVision will fetch any real money, so if you don't want to have any parts left after selling, then you should sell as a lot.

Personally I could only use the BPPC + BVision. Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with it???

[Vincent]

Cyberus wrote:
Let me try and remember, is it Blobrana and Vincent who are from Aberdeen?

Half right ;-)

As the others are saying you'd probably get more if you split it, but you are more likely not to sell all of it.  You might be left with the zip drive and the cd rom.

[sheepz]

@ doctorQ the main problem is the the ppc need more power and cooling as it is not very stable. The ppc works along with the bvision but i dont have any software to use it and my old games dont work on it. So i find it hard to continue if it wont play my games or run dopus.

I know these sound simple things but it is just getting to much, if there is anyone near by i would easly give it to them of a few weeks to sort, and something in return if they like.

Thanks again

Barry

[doctorq]

@sheepz

I can see the problem if you haven't gotten any soldering skills, otherwise the power issue is an easy fix. Cooling shouldn't be a big issue either.

As for games compatibility, have you tried WHDLoad? It fixes most problems with old games not working on newer CPUs. And DOpus it should run without any problems if it's correctly installed :-)

[Cyberus]

Vincent wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
Let me try and remember, is it Blobrana and Vincent who are from Aberdeen?

Half right ;-)

Wellllll, close enough ;-)

[amigadave]

Another consideration that I have not seen mentioned yet is that by selling your PPC and BVision cards, you are giving up on running AOS4 and/or Morph OS on your classic Amiga 1200.  There might not be a lot of software you want to run on AOS4 or Morph OS today, but that is changing and it is the future.  If it is just old games you want an Amiga for, then go ahead and find a good home for those parts or the whole system.

[sheepz]

all i want is it to work on the net and be able to copy cds and run my games, including napalm. I wish someone could set it for me.... I would be very greatfull as i dont want give up, its just abit beyond me!

Also i have little intrest in OS4. Its mostly for simple tasks and playing my large collection of games.

Thanks alot

Barry.

[doctorq]

He, if I was around your area I would help you out, but it's really not that difficult to set it up. Get someone to modify the Blizzard PPC board for you to get the extra power needed, buy some heatsinks and fans for the BVision and it should be pretty straight forward from this point with software installation.

[sheepz]

@doctorq

Well i have me bilzard out, i have some heat sinks, do i do a dab of glue on the heat sink corners and some thremal paste on the 040? Were do i put more power into blizard? It is the scsi enabled version if that changes anything.

Thanks again!

Barry

[doctorq]

You need to attach the heatsinks with special glue made for this particular purpose. I use something called Artic silver IIRC.

Regarding the extra power, you attach it where the fan gets it's power from. Find an Y power lead, snip one of the connectors of and take one +5V and one GND and solder to the fan connector. Remember to attach the wires to the right place (+5V to the +5V lead and GND to GND, otherwise you will blow the card). And don't use +12V, it will blow the thing up as well. Remeber to still feed the fan on the Blizzard board, there are several ways of doing so.

And yes, if it is a SCSI version, it does make a difference, as these boards needs more power on boot up than non-SCSI boards. I hope it helps you out, and if you can't do the soldering yourself, then get someone else to do it :-)