It’s time to put my rescued Amiga 4000 back together! After a complex repair, that spanned over a year and a case front fascia restoration. Its time to put it all back together, so I can use it as my own machine for gaming, and productivity (I’m looking at you Real 3D).
Category: Repair
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Can I Repair this Amiga’s RAM and bring it back to life?
In the previous video we looked at the damage caused by a leaking Varta battery to my Amiga 4000. This was once a working computer, used at a large TV station. Now it would not even show any video, and the battery had done some serious damage to various traces and chips near it. Now, we will see if we can get this machine to work again…
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Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453 PC – CH03: The Repair
During the cleaning process, the Ergo Pro developed a fault. In this video, we are going to try and repair a machine, with almost no signs of life, no video and with an architecture I am unfamiliar with, with no schematic to help. I know, when it failed to boot, my head sank, as pre-cleaning it was working.
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Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453 PC – CH02: Post Code Analyser
Sadly, during the first chapters cleaning, something went south on the Ergo Pros logic board. During its repair, one piece of equipment, a Post Code Analyser card, really proved to be pivotal in diagnosing the problem and ultimately repairing the machine.
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Is My Amiga 4000 Battery Damage Too Severe To Repair?
The rescued Amiga 4000 was cleaned, now we had to evaluate just how bad the battery damage was. Amiga 4000’s nearly always feature battery damage and its located RIGHT next to the main system memory. Would this Amiga live again, or would be be doomed to be a “for parts” machine….
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Amiga1000 CH04: Keyboard Logo Fix
As a result of the Keyboards successful retobriting, the iconic Amiga tick logo got severely foobar’d. So, how do we fix it? Maybe we paint in a new one, by hand. Lets see how successful hand painting this logo in is…
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Amiga1000 CH02: Case & PSU Repairs
The Amiga 1000 had some serious issues with it’s case. A major crack was found on one corner, which had a badly bodged repair. The case was also stained with an odd rust residue. Inside the rust theme continued, with the power supply displaying water damage. Lets see what I can do to get the main machine back in a fit state.