!! Episode 500!! Restoring an Amiga 3000 to new!

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Ай бұрын

!! Episode 500!! Commodore Amiga 3000d for a UX Repair - my 500th episode!!! and my 284th Amiga saved. PLEASE CONSIDER helping me to continue to save Amigas for free by joining my Patreon, its once a month and cheap. i spend more on lunch in one day... thank you!!
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Tools used in this video:
Tonya - a hammer
Aven Desoldering Wick
www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/...
Jonard IC extractor
www.amazon.com/Jonard-EX-2-Ex...
BackBit Chiptester pro v2
store.backbit.io/product/chip...
DIP Pin Straightener
retrorewind.ca/dip-chip-strai...
Helmet of Goober:
www.amazon.com/Headband-Magni...
Solder station WepTools 853d-5AII
www.weptools.com/products/853...
Desoldering station WepTools 948d3
www.weptools.com/products/948...
Fume Extractor: Weptools 948DQ
www.weptools.com/products/948...
Siglent SDS1052DL digital oscilloscope
www.amazon.com/Siglent-Techno...
Kotto silicon solder sucker aka Moana3
www.ebay.com/itm/203339405333
TV pixel display and wall pixel display
www.divoom.com

Пікірлер: 48

@danielktdoranie Ай бұрын

I love that you test capacitors for drifting values… in computing those drifting values matter

@jonathanwickett9118 Ай бұрын

Congrats on your 500th video Chris.

@Amn2k9 Ай бұрын

Congrats on the 500th. Episode! :)

@jasmijndekkers Ай бұрын

Nice repair Chris. I learn much more from your videos. Thankx for sharing. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands. Now iam working on a Amiga 500

@psyolent. Ай бұрын

and i just watched the ep where you got this and the other one delivered!

@Snowcrash777 Ай бұрын

It looks great Doc and grats on 500 Episodes!

@cullmaster7361 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the video Dr Chris 👍🏻 Congrats on the 500 episode 🎉 I must have missed a few episodes 🤔 Cheers 🍻

@GadgetUK164 Ай бұрын

Another great vid =) maybe that 040 card needs additional power cable!?

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

its missing a chip. still working on it, i did get the fan fixed

@sulrich70 Ай бұрын

The metal I reckon looks better than when the machine was bought from the shop.

@VernGraner Ай бұрын

Can Confirm! :D

@josephphillips9243 Ай бұрын

500 already, well done mate!

@RarefiedError Ай бұрын

Jeebus, that thng looks preme-o now. I'm back on the step where u deal with contention issues betwixt DF0 drive and scsi HD0 drive. Unplug Scsi , it boots from floppy fine. remove floppy ribbon connect scsi ribbon, it eventually boots HD0 fine. Connect both drives, rarely boots up. (usually gotta do the pre-boot environment mousebutton trick)

@gertsy2000 Ай бұрын

Luv it.

@ffsireallydontcare Ай бұрын

I can't remember what model drive was in my A3000 so my anecdote may not apply to this one. I had a problem where the head wouldn't start seeking, and I think it went through a whiirrr clunk phase as well. I ended up taking the lid off and I found that the rubber bump stop that the head arm rests against when "off" had turned into a gooey mess. This caused the arm to stick to it and the voice coil wasn't strong enough to free it. I ended up gently freeing the arm from the stop without letting the heads crash together or placing them on to the platter, then I removed the rubber stop and replaced it. I didn't have anything suitable hanging around, so I used some layers of heatshrink. It worked, the drive spun up and I was able to image it. It's been a few years since I did it so I can't say whether it's a long term fix, taking the top off a hard disk outside of a clean booth is never a good idea, but it should be good enough to at least image a drive.

@VernGraner Ай бұрын

Dr Chris sent the drives back to me and I would really love to recover the data from them so I may try the approach you suggest here! Thanks for the tip! 👍🙂

@ffsireallydontcare 5 күн бұрын

@@VernGraner Good luck! It's fiddly and scary, so only do it if you're ready to throw the drives out.

@byrons8956 Ай бұрын

Uh oh, I’ve heard that hard drive noise before; she’s dead, Jim. At least with my thick Quantum drive, it's a hot running drive.

@VernGraner Ай бұрын

I have little hope of recovering the data on those drives but at some point I may put them on the bench and see if I can coax them to run just long enough to image them!

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

@VernGraner you can also plug them into the zulu i put in there and unplug the amiga hdd. Only power and scsi to the drive. Flip the init switch. Install a empty fat32 formatted card and turn it on. It will image the entire disk to the card. Bad sectors and all. You can then attempt to mess w it in winuae without harming your amiga

@danielktdoranie Ай бұрын

Do you want a Taco Bell “AAAAHHGGGH” sound

@DarrenJCrawford Ай бұрын

Another happy customer gets a working Amiga, nice job. Have you every had to fix a Video Toaster?

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

nope. why do you have a broken one?

@DarrenJCrawford Ай бұрын

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Last I checked it was OK, you had a Toaster card in the video and I was wondering if you had ever needed to repair one. 🙂

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

@@DarrenJCrawford oh that was the users. I have like 4 of them, (3) 2000 and (1) 4000, i used it a long time ago, but the one i had borks out when hot. since theres really no use for it anymore with modern linear editors its more of a nich thing, cable nightmare. but fun to make kiki wiggle through the scenes.

@Birdy2b Ай бұрын

Great video as usual! 👍 👍 Just one question: Why not replace the hard disks with a much simpler compact flash? And second question.. 😅 Do you know the Halifax KZfaq channel, specialized Amiga repairer in France? Nice job! Congratulations...

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

i replaced it with a zulu rp2040

@rbmka56 Ай бұрын

👍🏾

@anakondase Ай бұрын

If you weren't so far away I'd ask you to have a go to find out how I killed my 500 (rev 5) when no bloodsugar me (brain plain not working at all) goofed the soldering up to upgrade kick 2.04 to 3.1.

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

just a rom jumper from pin 1 to 31 makes it work on a r5, no goofy pin lift or adaptors needed

@anakondase Ай бұрын

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Yeah, I didn't know that at the time. Now the board is dead, I have no idea what happened.

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

it will only pop the rom, do you have another kickstart rom to try?

@anakondase Ай бұрын

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I put the old 2.04 back in after and it's still dead.

@anakondase Ай бұрын

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I swapped the CIAs and I got some life in it. Normal gray screens up to boot screen but that's about it. Floppy non-responsive, not even a click. Damndest thing, I lifted on the CPU and put it back in and after that it's dead again.

@overdrive39 Ай бұрын

I have an Amiga 2000 I would love to start using again. The last time i did was years ago. Can you repair it for me? I know not for free I am not asking that.

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

i repair amigas for free. thats the whole basis of my Channel, with patreon help it helps me find and afford the replacement parts, chips, tools and stuff to make it happen, 287 saved so far. just shoot me an email, info on the about me page, please include desc and photos.

@whochecksthis Ай бұрын

I have an immaculate original 3000D, what would you recommend I do to it preemptively? Everything works great on it.

@whochecksthis Ай бұрын

I also have an 040 A4000D, I suppose I should test out the 040 card in the working 3000…

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

Enjoy it. are you asking about upgrades or what to do?

@whochecksthis Ай бұрын

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration recommendations to keep it operating another 30 years.

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

the main killer is a battery. if its in there, snip it out and neutralize it all with vinegar/ipa and a good ipa wipe rinse. the scsi can be converted to a Zuluscsi that uses hard disk images, easier to back up and restore to a SD card than a old scsi hard disk. upgrades exsist galore for video and network cards and many many things. the only limiting factor is your budget.

@SJSsesco Ай бұрын

She's dead Jim!

@kimshaky Ай бұрын

Where do you get that AUI to RJ45 from ??

@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ай бұрын

anywhere, its a Centrecom 210T ethernet AUI tranciever, usually about 10-25USD on ebooger heres a gen search i use www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&_nkw=centrecom+210ts&_sacat=0

@kimshaky Ай бұрын

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thank you for the quick answer😀