Dead Amigas

[T_Bone]

I had an a3000 PS fizzle the MB

[JimS]

I had my original A1000 sort-of-die on me.. One of the CIA chips went South. But it wasn't fatal, it just made the clock repeat the same 17 seconds over and over like a very short "Groundhog Day" :-)  The internal floppy has since died, so it can't boot at the moment.

The power supply in my 2000 failed. But out of my own Amigas, that's about it. Since I worked in an Amiga service shop for a while, I saw a lot more failures there...

[DoomMaster]

NONE of my Amiga computers have ever died on me.  In fact, in all the years that I have been dealing with computers I have never had a computer die on me.  But, my friends are always having problems with their computers and asking me for my help.  I guess that would mean that I do know what I am doing when it comes to computers.     :-D

[N7VQM]

DoomMaster wrote:
NONE of my Amiga computers have ever died on me.

Don't worry, your time will come.  It is inevitable.

Offtopic but, I once thought a rather important HP1000 had died on me.  I arrived at work that morning, started up the ICT machine and went off to do other things while it started up.  20 or 30 minutes later, I sat down at the terminal, and try to log on.  No RTE logon prompt.  So, I made sure the terminal wasn't in some wierd mode, checked cables and tried again.  Still no prompt.  Now I'm worried.

I tried some other things like sending commands from terminal zero and power cycling the computer.  After a couple hours of troubleshooting, it turned out that I caused the problem.

The evening before, I gave the computer a cleaning and reseated all the cables and cards including a 3MB RAM card.  While moving the RAM card, I flipped a DIP switch.  The computer thought it had 10MB of memory when it really only had 4.

[jjans]

One that was given to me already dead a few years ago, prior to moving. That I got running again by replacing Agnus.  I forgot about it for a couple of years out in my garage to withstand harsh Canadian winters . I fired it up recently  and it worked fine. I bought my first A500 in 1987, and I've put it through lots of abuse, not knowing what I was doing such as changing my own k/s roms from 1.3 to 2.04 and spilling my beer all over the works watching a hockey game on TV,  and yet she's still going, and going, and...

(knock wood)

[that_punk_guy]

Never.

Although I did lose a GVP HD8+ unit to the hard-disk drop-out beast. One cool thing about UAE: it never wears out.

[Kronos]

Yeap, one A2000 (very very early b-model), some cap exploded in the PSU,
took the whole mobo with .... what a firework.

Have gotten it for free a few weeks earlier so the only "damage" I ended
up with was an Cherry-KBD (those with the small F-keys), a case in
top condition, a 1.2 ROM and a Matushita-chainsaw usefull letting my anger
out (with a big hammer  :-P ).

[vortexau]

Not really!
But the mouse can wear-out after 10years, or more!  Opps, forgot, df:0 has long gone on the A2000.

The monitors can have problems after that period, as well!
My 1988 1084 presently has the on/off switch taped-on, and I switch it via the wall switch.

[Mike_Amiga]

My first A500 had a capslock light than seemed to be stuck on, no the key wasn't stuck, but the whole keyboard locked up. As in, wouldn't type even tho the keys pressed and appeared to spring back as they should.

Sometimes after multiple reboots it would work properly the light would go out and the keyboard would unlock. I couldn't be arsed to try and fix it, or get it fixed so bought a new (second hand) A500+ for 50 squid.

[amigamad]

NONE of my Amiga computers have ever died on me. In fact, in all the years that I have been dealing with computers I have never had a computer die on me. But, my friends are always having problems with their computers and asking me for my help. I guess that would mean that I do know what I am doing when it comes to computers.  

It wont be long your militry grade chips in your ancient profesional amiga,s will die .

As for always helping friends with computers i also do but that dont make me an expert or big headed. :-(  :-D

[amigamad]

NONE of my Amiga computers have ever died on me. In fact, in all the years that I have been dealing with computers I have never had a computer die on me. But, my friends are always having problems with their computers and asking me for my help. I guess that would mean that I do know what I am doing when it comes to computers.  

It wont be long your militry grade chips in your ancient profesional amiga,s will die .

As for always helping friends with computers i also do but that dont make me an expert or big headed.    :-(

[amigamad]

One cool thing about UAE: it never wears out.

The hard drive in the pc its running on will though.

[that_punk_guy]

True, but you can always buy a new HDD. Eventually, sad but true, all the classic Amiga hardware will be dead and lost forever.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

2 A500's, (two dead discdrives)
and a CDTV (nooooooo! in slow motion he fell on his knees in a moment of disbelieve)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Yet having a new CDTV and a good working A500 :-)

[amigamad]

sad but true, all the classic Amiga hardware will be dead and lost forever.

True i dont use my cdtv to much i want it to last a bit longer.