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Blitter
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: England
Posts: 50
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She's Alive! (A500)
So about a year ago I drunk bought an A500 motherboard on ebay non working for around £6. So as you do the next day I was surfing the net and suddenly remembered I had bought the board. As I already had an A1200 and a A600 to restore this got put on the back burner for a bit.
Fast forward a few months and I finally had time at work to have a look at the board. Plugged it in to test and it was dead as a dodo. Again it went back into storage. Fast forward a few more months and here we are at the beginning of December. This time I looked over it properly and noticed that 2 caps were missing (highlighted) ordered some replacements and soldered them on. Nothing, nothing at all other than a grey screen. Checked the board again and noticed that the CIA chips had what looked like corrosion on them. At home that night i was on ebay again, sober this time and saw someone selling a random collection of A500 chips, bought for some silly money £3 quid odd. ![]() They arrived last night so changed one of the CIA chips ![]() ![]() Also in the selection of chips there was a 2.0 rom, swapped that over and now have working A500 board. ![]() All I need now is a case, keyboard, floppy etc. Am so pleased I managed to save what otherwise might of been thrown away. ![]() ![]() Now on lookout for a CD32 or a A4000... |
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Semi-Retired
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Leiden / The Netherlands
Posts: 2,064
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Always good to see that something gets rescued from the bin. Good job!
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