Author Topic: My ongoing adventures with my A2000. (Read 10880 times)

r0jaws · « **on:** January 27, 2008, 01:06:43 AM »

It's with mixed feelings that I write this.
Mainly I'm pretty excited. A neighbour offered me his old a2000 complete with tons of discs and productivity suites.
It's not often that such treasure falls into your lap so I'm now a proud owner of said beastie.

I plugged her in and connected her up to my trusty 1084 to test her out, no joy unfortunately. Whilst there appears to be activity from the Hard Disc, all the screen shows is a flickering display :-( on the plus side she is showing lots of HD activity however, both floppies appear dead :-(.

On inspection inside there appears to be numerous cards that I'm not familiar with (not terribly familiar with a2000 as it is) but I believe I have a GVP Series II SCSI/RAM Controller, a BSC fast RAM memory expansion, and a KCS Power PC Board.

The onboard battery appears to be in fairly good nick but I will be pulling that little bugger out in fairly short order.
I've also got a big pile of discs and productivity suites to sort through, vidi amiga, showmaker, stereo master and some drawing and desktop publishing suites.

I'm going to pull out all the non standard gubbins over the next few days and see if I can't get this bad boy up and running again.

Any pointers out there specifically regarding a2000's? Things to look out for, any clues as to why she might not be displaying too much (I did try both composite and RGB).

(Edited for better quality shots of the installed expansion boards)

DigitalQ · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2008, 03:11:26 AM »

Welcome to the A2000 club! The A2000 is my favourite Amiga. The clock battery in question is located under the drive cage; you will want to pull that out to inspect it for leakage. It is located next to the 68000 CPU. Also, you will want to verify that the monitor and cable you are using are good.

Keep us posted!

sprocket · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2008, 03:53:32 AM »

both floppies dead?

hmmm...I didn't think the 2000 would even try if there wasn't a working floppy.

there's a jumper that has to be closed if it has two floppies in it, btw.

Is the screen just doing a flicker/cycling like it's rebooting? the LED on the keyboard lights every few seconds and the power light dims?

what colors does the screen go through?

do you know what ROM is in it?

If you disconnect the hard drive and or remove the scsi/ram card can you get the boot prompt screen?

if so there may be something wrong with the config, the hard drive, the ram or some app it's trying to run in startup.

just a few thoughts.

actung_bab · « **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2008, 05:00:41 AM »

yes l have to admit l like my newly acuried 2000 also
l have always had amiga 1200s .
l have one broken 2000 and one working one.
u can get os 3.1 roms on ebay
are ur sure its not set video resolution ur 1084s can handle.
the second amiga 2000 flopy was dead also it should click when booted. try see the floppy cable is around the right way and on the connector closet to where the psu plugs in.
l been playing blues brothers and superfrog.

:-)

A4000_Mad · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2008, 08:07:02 AM »

Congratulations! I'm also the proud owner of one of these beauties. She' an 030 with 3.1 ROMS. Seeing those photos makes me want to get her out of the loft and fire her up. I've never seen a photo of one in which it looks like the floppy drives actually fit. Oh well! :-)

Dmaster · « **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2008, 08:12:15 AM »

Congrats, she is a beauty, hope u can get her going

I miss my A2000 I left in Detroit, Mi when I moven to New Bedford, MA. Got an A2500 coming soon though

I do have an A2000T no monitor though, can't use her right now. Soon though

Enjoy!

r0jaws · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2008, 05:41:02 PM »

What's happened here?
2 Pages of my thread have disappeared and so have my last 6 posts.
Has there been some sort of trimming exercise or what? :-o
I wouldn't mind so much if it was just mine but it's the replys too, I was following up on some of that info, ho hum :-?

r0jaws · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:59:29 PM »

OK, Long story short, I got her running again. It was the PSU at fault and in need of some refurbishment, judiciously provided by one of the electricky wizards at work.
I have reposted all the pics below, with what I can remember of the description below.

The Motherboard with 2 Meg Agnus Chip fitted

From Top, Omega 68000 Speed Up Board, 2.04 ROM (Now refitted), Original Agnus Chip (Currently fitted due to diagnostics) & a Real Time Clock Chip.

She Lives! :-D :-D :-D Installing Dune II!

Workbench 2.04 Desktop

System Config

System Boards. Consisting of a Memory Master (1 Meg), KCS Power PC Board (2Meg), and GVP Impact Series II SCSI/RAM Controller (0 Meg installed)

SYSINFO, (Not the fastest, but not really a problem for what I intend for her)

I'll keep this updated as and when I significantly change anything, hopefully it'll last a bit longer this time :lol:

tokyoracer · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2008, 12:47:45 AM »

@ r0jaws,
I thought that too, what the hell happend!? :angry:

Ken86Stang · « **Reply #9 on:** February 12, 2008, 12:48:33 AM »

Quote

r0jaws wrote:
What's happened here?
2 Pages of my thread have disappeared and so have my last 6 posts.
Has there been some sort of trimming exercise or what? :-o
I wouldn't mind so much if it was just mine but it's the replys too, I was following up on some of that info, ho hum :-?

I think it has something to do with Amigeek/Doomy. It seems all of his posts and threads have disappeared too. Some of the posts went missing too. I'm guessing he was banned again?

A6000 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:08:28 AM »

It would be a shame if he was banned, as I did not see anything offensive in his posts, in fact, he behaved very well in the face of numerous personal attacks by others.

AMC258 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:56:58 AM »

I would not say he behaved "very well", but he was INCREDIBLY improved from the last time! Definately tolerable, so far, from what I saw.

tokyoracer · « **Reply #12 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:36:01 PM »

He's a bit of a git but atleast he was changing his image. Oh well...

rkauer · « **Reply #13 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:56:03 PM »

Quote

r0jaws wrote:
OK, Long story short, I got her running again. It was the PSU at fault and in need of some refurbishment, judiciously provided by one of the electricky wizards at work.
I have reposted all the pics below, with what I can remember of the description below.

From Top, Omega 68000 Speed Up Board, 2.04 ROM (Now refitted), Original Agnus Chip (Currently fitted due to diagnostics) & a Real Time Clock Chip.

(Not the fastest, but not really a problem for what I intend for her)

Seeing your Sysinfo, I noticed you are running without your "accelerator".

gdanko · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:43:24 PM »

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A6000 wrote:
It would be a shame if he was banned, as I did not see anything offensive in his posts, in fact, he behaved very well in the face of numerous personal attacks by others.

It looks like all of his posts have been deleted. This is silly. If the guy is making an effort to play nice, then let him.

Author Topic: My ongoing adventures with my A2000. (Read 10880 times)

r0jaws

My ongoing adventures with my A2000.

DigitalQ

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sprocket

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actung_bab

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A4000_Mad

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Dmaster

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r0jaws

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r0jaws

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tokyoracer

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