Recent content by amigean

By the looks and connection options I'm guessing it may be close to 20 years old? Flat screens back then had bad viewing angles, limited and uneven brightness, light bleeding, washed colours and backlighting prone to failure. And that was from new, it probably hasn't gotten better over time...

Mouse problems typically mean one of the CIA chips, either bad contact or bad chip. Try checking them using the 'Amiga Test Kit': https://github.com/keirf/Amiga-Stuff Flaky PSU may also be causing similar behavior (mine did some years ago before the original PSU failed). You can monitor...

Welcome!

Hello Val! Welcome!!

What model is it??

Because I get the same issue with another PSU, and the it predates my acquisition of the PowerShark (which seems excellent btw). Thanks for the kind suggestion in any case. I found an old Amibay thread where legendary member rkauer suggests to push one of the motherboard connector pins back in...

Declaring interest.Declaring interest for a BeQuiet SFX-L adapter, thanks!(Marked as sold/completed by a.mi.goun)

My trusty Amiga 1200 seems to have a failing power connector on the motherboard. Moving the power cable ever so slightly will cause it to lose power - it now reached the point where it hardly makes contact and won't turn on. Took away the joy of my new PowerShark :-( I disassembled it a couple...

Good luck! You can ask Hese here, he does amazing repairs, recaped some Zorro boards for in the past too. Speaking about Zorro cards, my RapidRoad (bought here ages ago) never really worked properly and i'm suspecting the PSU may have had something to do with it. I need to try it on my A3000...

Point taken! I'm on the lookout for a replacement...

thank for the advice - indeed I need to do more research, and measure with a multi-meter how well my current Corsair VS450 handles +5v. I have transplanted its guts to the original PSU housing and replaced the built-in fan with a permanently connected one. I run a real 3.5 HDD which draws 12v...

Thanks for the response, I wasn't aware of these issues! I wonder now, if the real reason my original A4000 motherboard died was the Corsair VS 450 psu I had powering it. In fact, it had been flakey for a long time before it kicked the bucket but I never suspected the PSU as my confidence on...

That was a close one! Why are you against ATX PSUs? Surely they are safer, assuming technology and safety progressed over the past 30 years? I have adapted Corsair psus in my heavily expanded A3000 and A4000 (currently being rebuilt as it got transplanted to a Hese Alice A4000+ mb) and very...

I actually found time to test it repeatedly these past few days and the 30 year old lithium battery works!!! I set the time on the clock and left the Amiga on for a few hours to allow it to charge. Turned it off and the following day the time was still correct. Left it off for a week, turned on...

Welcome! Nice collection! Many amazing memories around all this - 1000 floppies sounds familiar! Ha ha If only we could find more time to do all we wanted - as long as we keep the flame alive, time will present itself, eventually!