After all my years with Amigas this one's a new one on me. I was using my A3000D (Picasso IV, Ariadne 2, no other expansions) this morning browsing the net for a couple of hours then switched off to go shopping. Four hours later I turn it back on only to find my Picasso isn't being recognised in WB and my right mouse button (RMB) isn't working; no menu popping up but pressing right Amiga+alt keys brings it up.

The thing is...I can hold both mouse buttons and get to the early startup screen so the RMB is working. I changed to a different mouse, both known to be working fine and it's the same. I tried booting from a floppy and get the same results; no RMB in WB but it's there at early startup??

I'm at a loss what's happening to the Picasso too, it shows up okay at early startup but does a disappearing act once WB is loaded. The Ariadne2 is okay though so it's not the daughter board.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

...
Phil.

EDIT: I removed the Picasso and Ariadne2 (no cards attached) and still have the RMB problem.

Pretty strange!

As posted before, I've had problems with the way the Zorro III daughter board sits in the motherboard.  I usually have to re-seat it several times after disturbing it.  You didn't disturb yours did you?

One other thought, have you done any hot-plugging of the mouse port?  Maybe the associated interface chips have become intermittant.  I wish I could help more with this, I schematics for the 500 & 2000 but not the 3000.

OK, one more thought.  Did your battery leak?

Thanks for the suggestions guys.  Good news; all's well again.

@Kin-Hell. All caps seem to be visually okay, thanks.

@Tenacious. Yup, the daughter board seating was the problem with the Picasso. I had to re-seat it 3 times before the Picasso was recognised.

When I got this A3K around a year ago it had the original, leaking, battery which I replaced with a lithium battery. There was a problem with the mouse which I forgot about; the pointer would 'flick' over to the right side of the screen and stay there. I repaired this by cleaning the green crud off the Paula IC + socket + surrounding area. So last night I re-seated Paula and started getting all sorts of funky stuff - green screen on boot-up all the way to WorkBench (memory), garbled graphics, no mouse buttons working but pointer moving, you name it I got it  :lol: ....

@amiga_3k.... Swapping Paula sorted all the above problems out, cheers.

And has regards hot swapping peripherals - I learnt my lesson when I got a new A4kD and hot swapped a hand scanner and blew the parallel port, ended up getting a replacement motherboard under warranty. Never again!

Cheers,
...
Phil.

right mouse button line goes to paula, try to swap it from another machine if you can