@tbtorro Symptoms: IDE activity LED on the CF adapter constantly on, even if the motherboard itself is powered down (with IDE CF powered with external PSU). IDE booting intermittent. After about 30 seconds the IDE activity LED on the CF adapter would go half bright (with motherboard still powered off), at this point if the […]
Category: Commodore
Amiga 500,500+,2000,3000 drive selector switch
How does it work On the Amiga 500,500+,2000,3000 you can’t boot from the external (DF1) drive by default, so you need a switch so the external (DF1) drive will act as DF0: Switch position 1 (default) Internal Drive is DF0: External Drive is DF1: Switch position 2 External Drive will be acting as DF0: Internal […]
Compact Flash LED not working
Some Compact Flash (CF) to IDE adaptors fail to light up the drive activity LED, I was wondering why… I took a board and removed some components and did some measurements, and I discovered that the BOTH base pins of the NPN transistors are connected to ground. Huh?! That means that the transistors won’t switch […]
CDTV CDROM no data discs repair
This time a Commodore CDTV arrived on my workbench with the following symptoms: Plays audio cd fine Does not load CDROM (CDTV) discs After checking that the CD mechanism worked fine using an audio CD I tested with several CDTV discs both original and recordables. During loading the CD spins up OK and there is […]
Amiga 1200 Rev 1D1 Noise on video signal (LM385)
I’ve seen some 1200 Rev. 1D.1 boards missing the D215 (LM385), this will result in a higher voltage on the DAC VREF signal (U30) and noise will shown when you dragging workbench windows, accessing HD or floppy, etc.. When you place a LM385 then the picture will be much better. If the LM385 is broke, […]