Greetings all, it's been far far too long. :-)
But, google led me to you again, on a hunt to try and make the ol' girl run again.
Here's the scoop, hope you can help.
A3000T-040 (one of the last out the Canadian C= door, before it closed up).
About 5 years ago, I flipped over, and noticed she was stalled/dead.
With a reboot not working, but removing cards, and disconnecting drives helping, I assumed failing PSU, and shut her off.
Sadly, she wasn't on again until today.
Finally, I went looking for answers... and found a page on ATX PSU conversion for the 3000T.
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_Power_supplies/body_amiga_power_supplies.htmlHaving a spare good 400watt ATX PSU here, I started soldering. :-)
All pinouts checked against the list, with a meter, and so I hooked it up.
All SCSI drives are out, external term is on, internal cable is on, connected to the CDRom at the end, which is set to termination enabled (the way it always was).
PicassoII and Ariadne removed. (plus all the other serial port cards, it used to be a CNet BBS that kicked ass) ;-)
Yet, all I get is the dark grey screen, confirmed working by the menu on the monitor, showing 31.4kHz x 60Hz.
Power light never makes it off dim.
Soft reset, flashes the capslock once. (I think that means the keyboard isn't happy, but system gets no further with it unplugged.)
Have wiggled all of the chip and fast ram. (whoa, the terms are flooding back here)
Have pressed and wiggled the roms, and the other system chips, not yet completely reseating them.
Have cleaned and reseated the 040 daguhterboard.
I see a small amount of residue on the underside of that 040 board, right below each capacitor. Perhaps caps leak?
Shouldn't that throw other codes?
The battery shows some corrosion on one end, but, with the system off, still reads 2.5vDC, so it's not toast or shorted.
Open to more ideas... happy to spend a buck or two, on the ol' girl. :-)
Roms are v40.68
Thanks,
Andrew