Time for a bit of Monday night hackery!
At the request of our very own Tajmaster, I'm taking some pictures of his A4000 motherboard as I work on it
Taj's A4000 has some poorly SIMM sockets:
Only the grey Chip RAM socket has it's clips remaining and functional - stopping this Amiga from seeing its motherboard-mounted Fast RAM. But help is at hand - let's fire up the heat-ray of death, and murder some pesky SIMM sockets!
SIMM sockets turn into chocolate very quickly!
...revealing a very clean and tidy PCB underneath. No battery damage here, sir! I took the capacitor off to make some room as I worked on easing the socket out - they're getting done too, later on
Slowly but surely, chunk by chunk, the evil SIMM sockets are removed.
'Ave a banana!
The end result... a pile of SIMM shrapnel: (Do you want these as a souvenir, Taj? )
And it sure does look good naked:
Thanks to Hikey, we also have a perfect set of replacements, with metal clips - way more robust than the chocolate tat Commodore used! Cheers again for supplying them Hikey!
Work continues after a cuppa! There's only 360 holes to clear of solder, hahaha I'll be back...
At the request of our very own Tajmaster, I'm taking some pictures of his A4000 motherboard as I work on it
Taj's A4000 has some poorly SIMM sockets:
Only the grey Chip RAM socket has it's clips remaining and functional - stopping this Amiga from seeing its motherboard-mounted Fast RAM. But help is at hand - let's fire up the heat-ray of death, and murder some pesky SIMM sockets!
SIMM sockets turn into chocolate very quickly!
...revealing a very clean and tidy PCB underneath. No battery damage here, sir! I took the capacitor off to make some room as I worked on easing the socket out - they're getting done too, later on
Slowly but surely, chunk by chunk, the evil SIMM sockets are removed.
'Ave a banana!
The end result... a pile of SIMM shrapnel: (Do you want these as a souvenir, Taj? )
And it sure does look good naked:
Thanks to Hikey, we also have a perfect set of replacements, with metal clips - way more robust than the chocolate tat Commodore used! Cheers again for supplying them Hikey!
Work continues after a cuppa! There's only 360 holes to clear of solder, hahaha I'll be back...