roadrash
Experienced Member
I've had this bridgeboard working in my Amiga B2000 ever since I bought it many decades ago and its never failed to boot up.
But recently my Amiga has stopped booting and I removed all the add in cards and found it was the bridgeboard card that's causing it to stop booting.
If I remove it the Amiga boots fine so the issue seems to be in the A2088 bridgeboard. Its basically a complete IBM XT clone on a card.
So far I've backed up the bios just for safety and replaced all the electrolytic caps (just 6 in total 47uf 25v).
The first time I tried it after replacing the caps I was shocked when a brand new cap exploded. I checked and it was put in the correct way round so have no idea why it should have done that. Anyway just to try I replaced it with a 50v one and tried again and still it doesn't let the Amiga start up.
There is not a lot I can think of to check so would be grateful for any help I can get to resurrect by now dead PC XT.
Here is a link to some hi-res photo's of the A2088 bridgeboard https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16h0baB6Lxl2cEzkjjCwQK1BNG-tnnoln?usp=sharing
But recently my Amiga has stopped booting and I removed all the add in cards and found it was the bridgeboard card that's causing it to stop booting.
If I remove it the Amiga boots fine so the issue seems to be in the A2088 bridgeboard. Its basically a complete IBM XT clone on a card.
So far I've backed up the bios just for safety and replaced all the electrolytic caps (just 6 in total 47uf 25v).
The first time I tried it after replacing the caps I was shocked when a brand new cap exploded. I checked and it was put in the correct way round so have no idea why it should have done that. Anyway just to try I replaced it with a 50v one and tried again and still it doesn't let the Amiga start up.
There is not a lot I can think of to check so would be grateful for any help I can get to resurrect by now dead PC XT.
Here is a link to some hi-res photo's of the A2088 bridgeboard https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16h0baB6Lxl2cEzkjjCwQK1BNG-tnnoln?usp=sharing