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[CritAnime]

Ok so i opened my 1200 up and found a odd yellow wire that is coming off the budgie chip and going to some tiny little chip at the bottom of the system which then seems to be going to a blank space. Any idea what this is?

Also there is a header inside that has a cap on it that looks like it's intended for a drive or soemthing. Any idea what that is?

It's a rev f mother board

Newbie to the insides of the 1200 so sorry if these sound like silly questions.

Btw the header is not the hdd header as I have my cf connected to that

[NovaCoder]

Take some pictures, they tell lots of words.

[CritAnime]

And the header is p9b but I cant take a photo of it because the camera won't focus properly on it.

there is also this one

[odin]

Timing fixes? Looks very neatly done.

[paul1981]

Originally Posted by CritAnime

Ok so i opened my 1200 up and found a odd yellow wire that is coming off the budgie chip and going to some tiny little chip at the bottom of the system which then seems to be going to a blank space. Any idea what this is?

Also there is a header inside that has a cap on it that looks like it's intended for a drive or soemthing. Any idea what that is?

It's a rev f mother board

Newbie to the insides of the 1200 so sorry if these sound like silly questions.

Btw the header is not the hdd header as I have my cf connected to that

Revision F motherboard? I've never heard of one. Can you take some photo's of that section of the board where it says F?

[amigamad]

Quite often the amiga 1200 motherboards have wires on them it is to fix faults in the copper tracks i have one with a few green wires attached it could also be to fix timing issues but most likely to fix a production fault with the board.

[CritAnime]

Originally Posted by paul1981

Revision F motherboard? I've never heard of one. Can you take some photo's of that section of the board where it says F?

It's me been slack. The motherboard says 1b but there's a sticker that says rev f. That must have something to do with the wires maybe?

Also the p9b header. Is that the rtc connector.

[CritAnime]

This is what I am talking about.

[Matt_H]

The yellow wires are normal - that's a factory rework. Almost all 1200s have them.

P9B is your clockport... sort of. Most machines have pins only on the right side of that header. The connector on yours looks different. It could be another factory oddity. The clockport and the P9A header on the opposite side of the RAM chips were originally intended to support a 1MB chip RAM expansion, but were made redundant when Commodore decided to ship all 1200s with 2MB of Chip RAM instead of 1MB.

The other empty solder pads in that area were meant for an onboard clock.

See photo here.