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Amiga1992 · 31 October 2022, 21:54

Well it seems I'm dealing with a pyromaniac A1200 here

I got a new CF adapter and card, and it all worked great! I was really chuffed. Then I went to build it completely, putting the floppy drive back in, and I try to boot it up and nothing was happening and then I smell/see smoke and want to die... turn it off ASAP and realize it's the floppy drive power cable's 5V cable. But how??? It cannot be plugged backwards, and all the voltages are read correctly, after the fact I read them again and they are fine (12.06V and 4.85V), and the machine seems to be happy working as it should, except that now I dont know what happened to the floppy drive.

Any ideas here? I never seen a floppy power cable burn up.

31 October 2022, 21:54	#16
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	Well it seems I'm dealing with a pyromaniac A1200 here I got a new CF adapter and card, and it all worked great! I was really chuffed. Then I went to build it completely, putting the floppy drive back in, and I try to boot it up and nothing was happening and then I smell/see smoke and want to die... turn it off ASAP and realize it's the floppy drive power cable's 5V cable. But how??? It cannot be plugged backwards, and all the voltages are read correctly, after the fact I read them again and they are fine (12.06V and 4.85V), and the machine seems to be happy working as it should, except that now I dont know what happened to the floppy drive. Any ideas here? I never seen a floppy power cable burn up.