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A PLETHORA of PROBLEMS in this AMIGA 600

CRG 5,677 2 months ago
Video Not Working? Fix It Now

Over on the CRG discord I had been trying to help Twilight1964 with his A600. We where fairly sure it had a reset problem but its always difficult to diagnose problems without having the machine in front of you. So now that I've got it, surely something like a reset issue should be easy enough to fix... Things are rarely that simple in this retro hobby and this Amiga 600 certainly put up quiet the fight. Yes it has a reset problem but that's only the beginning of the problems. Video Links Amiga Guides - https://sites.google.com/one-n.co.uk/amiga-guides/home Amiga Schematics - https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=en:service:schematics Amiga PCB Explorer - https://www.amigapcb.org/ CRG Links CRG-2 - https://www.youtube.com/@UCDFfWx7km9M8qRB9x5-_LjQ CRG Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13919007 CRG Discord - https://discord.gg/kx2FS8TSWV CRG X (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/YT_CRG Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:58 Letter 01:38 Opening up 02:38 Inspecting the previous work and damage 11:32 Patch wires 13:06 Copper tape pads 19:50 Another broken trace 20:19 Reviewing the work and a potentially cracked joint 23:23 First test 23:49 Still not resetting 30:57 HALT 33:24 RAM 35:41 ROM probing 39:29 Cracks 41:20 Test after reflow 43:01 Next problem 44:22 Composite problems 46:10 ATK and the next problem 50:20 Keyboard cleaning 52:00 Soft reset 54:27 Conclusion

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