Help.....my amiga is dead?

[carvedeye]

Hi all just finished putting my amiga 1200 into my ez z4 tower connected everything up which included an amiga psu to AT psu lead for my at psu then i attached the rgb to scart lead so i can view on a tv untill my mediator is purchased. powered it up and nothing happened? so thought i would try with my ordinary amiga psu and there is no power going through? any ideas i really dont want to fork out for another 1200.

tia ray

[save2600]

Did you accidentally short the back of the board out to the case when you installed or all the appropriate spacers in place?

[carvedeye]

i just hooked the led lights up to it there are no drives connected but i do have a constant green light so that shows there is power going to it right?

[mike-]

Pull everything apart and try just the 1200? Then slowly build it back up, cleaning all connections?

[save2600]

i just hooked the led lights up to it there are no drives connected but i do have a constant green light so that shows there is power going to it right?

Doesn't mean that you didn't fry something though. Umm... if you think you were careful and didn't short something out, have you tried reseating the Kickstart chips? Those can settle in place and then when disturbed, cause a wonky connection.

Those are the only socketed chips, so other than that, maybe see if one of the surface mounted chips didn't accidentally pull a leg up if/when you twisted the mobo. Hope you have a magnifying glass or cheaters! lol

Oh and the drive cable could be inserted poorly too. VERY easy to do with floppies or hard drives. Check your IDE and floppy connectors!

[carvedeye]

Doesn't mean that you didn't fry something though. Umm... if you think you were careful and didn't short something out, have you tried reseating the Kickstart chips? Those can settle in place and then when disturbed, cause a wonky connection.

Those are the only socketed chips, so other than that, maybe see if one of the surface mounted chips didn't accidentally pull a leg up if/when you twisted the mobo. Hope you have a magnifying glass or cheaters! lol

Oh and the drive cable could be inserted poorly too. VERY easy to do with floppies or hard drives. Check your IDE and floppy connectors!

i did not have any drives connected just the power and rgb scart lead so i could see whether or not there was a picture then i was gonna add the drives. i will try the roms to make sure all are seated correctly

[carvedeye]

well i just tryed pushing down on the roms and other sockets and now it is working many thanks guys now just to put everything together and hopeit does not encounter any more probs. thanks again

[save2600]

well i just tryed pushing down on the roms and other sockets and now it is working many thanks guys now just to put everything together and hopeit does not encounter any more probs. thanks again

Glad pushing down on the chips worked, but is likely you'll experience that same problem later since you didn't fully remove them and re-insert. So, when it happens again - you'll know what to do  

[smerf]

Hi,
@save2600,

nice call.

smerf