prokyonid, 4 months ago

I do not know a lot about Amigas, but I understand this is supposed to be a good sign?

I don't have a system boot disk yet. The machine is making a ticking noise, which I believe is coming from the FDD. Is that normal?

#retrocomputing #amiga

prokyonid, 4 months ago

I stuck a random floppy disk in the drive, the yellow drive light lit up, the FDD made some seeking-type noises and the insert disk picture went away, briefly. The ticking noise has stopped.

prokyonid, 4 months ago

I guess this is about all I can do with this machine until I figure out how to make Amiga-format diskettes.

prokyonid, 4 months ago

The screen just went solid grey. Does that mean something?

prokyonid, 4 months ago

Turned it off, now it's alternating yellow and dark grey. I don't know much about Amigas but I know that yellow screen = bad.

prokyonid, 4 months ago

Look what I found!

#amiga

prokyonid, 4 months ago

Oh no. Look what I found.

#retrocomputing #amiga

prokyonid, 4 months ago

Well, removing it means no more yellow screen at least. Looks like that card was a 512K memory card with a battery backed clock. I think it's probably toast now.

davespice, 4 months ago

@prokyonid Yikes! Some deoxit D5 might be able to get the corrosion off, then it would be a matter of cutting off the battery and maybe also replacing the cap and xtal with the bad legs? It could be saved I reckon

nivrig, 4 months ago

@prokyonid Congrats! The drive click is normal and shows quite a lot of things are working! Pull out that memory expansion from underneath and check for battery leakage on it though.

peter, 4 months ago

@prokyonid The drive clicking on an Amiga is a good sign as it's looking for a floppy, so that when you insert one it will automatically mount it