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Originally Posted by ajk
Additionally, almost all the electrolytic capacitors on Amiga motherboards are only there to provide voltage stability and are not that critical to operation as long as the power supply is good. In fact, you could run the systems with all caps removed* and they would work more or less normally.
Therefore, even if the capacitors on an A500 have aged, it doesn't usually cause issues. However leaking capacitors (on the A600 and A1200) are a problem because that will ruin the board.
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Thanks for clarifying. I haven't gotten hold of schematic yet, so I wasn't clear on this point, that's good to know.