sev
Experienced Member
I recently acquired an Amiga 3000. The guy I bought it from told me the battery damage was pretty extensive.
The pictures below are more or less how I got the box. I just cleaned the corrosion off, but the top layers of the board had already flaked away by the time I got to it. It looks like the previous owner physically forced the battery to snap off causing all this damage to the PCB. Very aggravating to see.
The other thing is the system looks like its missing chips. It had no kickstart rom, so I grabbed the roms v3.0 roms from my 4000 and threw them in, no dice.
When I turn it on, the VGA monitor comes up, black creen, the power LED comes up solid, no flashes whatsoever.
Along with the roms, I popped in a a3640 to see if it would have any life... nothing. same difference.
What else can I try? There is no SCSI drive connected, would that make a difference?
Pics of the motherboard, are there some RAM chips missing? It is bare on the bottom right where it has sockets from U850D to U857D.
Before cleaning:
After cleaning :
How much damage is there, is this fixable? I feel like the corrosion ate through multiple layers of the board.
HELP!!
The pictures below are more or less how I got the box. I just cleaned the corrosion off, but the top layers of the board had already flaked away by the time I got to it. It looks like the previous owner physically forced the battery to snap off causing all this damage to the PCB. Very aggravating to see.
The other thing is the system looks like its missing chips. It had no kickstart rom, so I grabbed the roms v3.0 roms from my 4000 and threw them in, no dice.
When I turn it on, the VGA monitor comes up, black creen, the power LED comes up solid, no flashes whatsoever.
Along with the roms, I popped in a a3640 to see if it would have any life... nothing. same difference.
What else can I try? There is no SCSI drive connected, would that make a difference?
Pics of the motherboard, are there some RAM chips missing? It is bare on the bottom right where it has sockets from U850D to U857D.
Before cleaning:
After cleaning :
How much damage is there, is this fixable? I feel like the corrosion ate through multiple layers of the board.
HELP!!