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[danwood]

Damn... I think my A1XE is dead. Recently it had been eating through batteries quickly, or so I thought, every time the mains power was disconnected it needed a battery change. The other day I powered it on and it shut itself down, powering on was black screen.

Upon investigation, a rogue wire had come loose from the PSU, one of the crimps on the IDE power to the CD-ROM had worked its way out of the socket and was lying on the motherboard, right near the CPU...

I've tried changing the battery again several times, stripped the machine right down to bare motherboard and GPU, no sign of life.

Green light is on the motherboard, but no video output.

There is no visible damage on the board, would there be if it had shorted it?

I guess serial de-bug is next step. What kind of cable do I need for the A1XE, not sure which port is the serial port.

Does Amigakit do A1 repairs?

[Virge]

Did you tried another graphic card?

Regards
Pedro

[danwood]

Originally Posted by Virge

Did you tried another graphic card?

Regards
Pedro

Yeah, tried my old one and my current one, no difference. (Radeon 7000 and 9200)

[tomazkid]

The serial would need a serial cable or nullmodem dito, I myself use serial cable, but both should work.

The rate,

""
Speed - equivalent to baudrate in UBoot Environment Variables and specifies the baud rate for the serial ports. The options are 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800, and 921600. Default is 9600.
""

Above from
http://www.titan.co.nz/amigaak/AA020844d26a.htm

There is a good guide at aw.net too, but site currently unavailable (ISP network issues it seems.)

[jorkany]

If you don't manage to get it working or repaired, could you please take it to a recycle center and record a video of it going into the grinder? Then post to youtube. Thanks!

[danwood]

Originally Posted by tomazkid

The serial would need a serial cable or nullmodem dito, I myself use serial cable, but both should work.

The rate,

""
Speed - equivalent to baudrate in UBoot Environment Variables and specifies the baud rate for the serial ports. The options are 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800, and 921600. Default is 9600.
""

Above from
http://www.titan.co.nz/amigaak/AA020844d26a.htm

There is a good guide at aw.net too, but site currently unavailable (ISP network issues it seems.)

Where is the serial port on the board though, is it the connector above the audio-outs? Looks a non-standard connection, or would I need a PCI serial board?

[danwood]

Originally Posted by jorkany

If you don't manage to get it working or repaired, could you please take it to a recycle center and record a video of it going into the grinder? Then post to youtube. Thanks!

Well it would be sad if that was my last OS 4 video, since my other ones have had over 100,000 views

[tomazkid]

@danwood
this is the tutorial Wegster wrote that I refered to earlier, it should explain everything, including the connector (I hope).

http://amigaworld.net/modules/featur...id=125&sort_by

[Rob]

Originally Posted by danwood

Well it would be sad if that was my last OS 4 video, since my other ones have had over 100,000 views

Maybe you could start a bounty for Jorkany's video. €900 and the XE gets crushed sound about right.