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Post by gmoon on Dec 6, 2006 13:18:21 GMT -5
Yesterday I turned on my trusty Amiga 4000, first time in about 18 months.
Things looked bad from the start, then got worse:
It couldn't find several paths during boot, then froze. On restart, it wouldn't work at all. After several hours, it would boot again, freeze after about 2 min.
Sounds like a power supply issue to me--anyone here know any good tech links for Amigas?
I have two harddrives, CDrom in the thing, so it needs a bit of juice....
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Post by Golan Klinger on Dec 6, 2006 14:54:48 GMT -5
The best source of parts in America (that I know of us) is Software Hut. They may be able to help you out. There are lots of other online store but most are based in Europe and shipping becomes prohibitively expensive. You're in Ohio so if you could hang on until May another option would be to bring your Amiga to the C4 expo and let some experts poke (no pun intended) at it to determine what's wrong.
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Post by MadModder on Dec 6, 2006 15:04:38 GMT -5
I have an old 200W AT supply in my A1200 tower (PC AT fulltower. Took some work to fit everything...) Works very well. I have one harddisk, one CD-rom, one 68060 50MHz turbo card with SCSI plugin card + EDO memory, several extras like PCMCIA 10Mbit tcp/ip card, AT-keyboard adapter, VGA adapter (scan/sync doubler), and have never had any power problems.
On my old A500 on the other hand, the original power supply could not quite supply what was needed for only ONE connected 3,5" harddrive. The result was corrupted files, clicking noises from the HDD, unwanted reboots etc.
Is it not possible to modify an AT supply (or ATX for that matter) and fit it in place of the original one?
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Post by gmoon on Dec 6, 2006 21:15:54 GMT -5
Thanks, guys. Golan: The link looks good; if I can't find enough info to fix it myself, they look to be a sure bet. Yeah, I could probably wait for the show, too (why are they always scheduled when I'm most busy..?..Weekends in May are impossible.) MM: I was looking for info to that effect--using an older AT power supply sounds ideal (I've got one or two somewhere.) But I can't be the first with this probably, so was hoping for some pinouts, etc (or an actual A4000 schematic) from the web....I'll keep searching.
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Post by MadModder on Dec 9, 2006 8:30:54 GMT -5
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Post by gmoon on Dec 9, 2006 12:22:57 GMT -5
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Post by MadModder on Dec 10, 2006 14:59:47 GMT -5
Great. Hope you fix it.
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