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Apologizes if this has been mentioned.Site here has service manuals if any use. http://www.playvectrex.com/

Zetr0.Thats no problem i understand i had jan in mind anyways as postage will be stopping soon here anyway :).And i rather like to pay for your good time giving your expertise and time :).

@zetr0-Yes hope for resale in the new year,happy for rigid test,have two cards,an blizzard 030 and an apollo 040,both cards are cosmically fine with batteries removed when purchased,my own machines weren't modded to give both cards proper power so i often had resets or crash,i suspect this was...

Does a such service exist for accelerating card testing?.I will be off loading some cards in new year.My own models of computers weren't the most reliable for testing as they weren't hacked to allow to give proper power to the cards.I rather let and pay someone for their time who had a proper...

i posted the same question about iron over in eab and mr zetr0 kindly answered the question.For benefit of those wishing to learn more i linked the question here- http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=707706#post707706

@davideo-ty for your reply :) 5-what's best solution to clean up electrolyte leaks.Can contact cleaner or methylated spirits be used?.

I have few amiga's that will soon be due an capacitor change After reading this great thread about the A1200 cap change- http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=47326 im aware i will have to tackle this job soon.I have few basic questions- 1-The cap...

Happy birthday :D

Someone used barrel type ones on their A4000*impractical on A1200 case i know

I must start practising on junk pcb's,badcaps.net has a nice guide about it all,mods remove if the link doesn't fit amiga tech http://www.badcaps.net/

Some of the migs suffering from cap failure.One question i often seen asked around the amiga forums is.Can you replace the caps on your amiga board with solid state ones?.I haven't read an definite answer.So in my effort of mythbusting,has anyone here tried with with any success?.

just curious,wonder would a hairline crack on the board cause any problems?

probably no use to you but found some info here,the same site has schematics to download,all these apply to the ones made by commodore. link with info and downloads- http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=13

Fear not amiga hardware has the pic- site- http://amiga.resource.cx/mod/a1200.html High res pic*click on "medium" pic link in the pic to shrink it*- http://amiga.resource.cx/photos/photo2.pl?id=a1200&pg=3&res=hi&lang=en

silly suggestion but thought throw it in anyway,have you tried connecting to a hifi then inserting a disk,then powering it on to notice would it boot and least produce a sound from a game regardless of display problem?.