Well, my 4000 has just died. It's a lovely machine and I want it to live again.
I removed the hard drive, plugged it into my PC and converted the drive into a hardfile image using WinUAE.
I put the drive back in the amiga (plastic shielding in place) and all works well.
I nudge the 'miggy. There's a "crack" shorting sound, a slight smell of troubled electronics, and the machine hangs. Quick check for a short, and can't see anything.
TUrn it off, turn it on in trepidation... Fans turn, drives spin, power LED dimly lights and... Black screen.
I strip the machine down it bare bones (CPU, memory, expansion riser card) and try again. Same again.
Check the PSU voltages. All look good, unfortunately. Damn.
It's dead.
I don't know what component has bitten the dust; I'm hoping it's something simple like an onboard fuse that's blown (ha)
Anyone in North England have a CPU card I can check so I can work out if it's the CPU card or motherboard that's dead?
I'm gutted. This machine is exactly how I want it, finally: OS3.9, scan doubler, piccolo SD64, warp engine, xsurf2... And it rather appears that I've killed it. I just wish I knew what has gone wrong
Any thoughts?