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#Broken A2000 Motherboard

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#189127From: Bart MathiasMar 15, 1995 12:41 PM
The CIA chips should have nothing to do with your +5v and +12v problems. The first thing I would check is the connections to those LEDs in the Analyzer. Those connector pins are connected to the power supply. Do you print from the serial port? (Now that I'm replying in AP, I can't back up and look at your original message to see whether you said.) Have you tried running the test programs that came with the analyzer? You should have all the schematics in the back of your A2000 manual. If not, you can get larger versions for $30 from Software Hut, misleadingly advertised as "Service Manual." (They are, except for size, almost identical to the ones in the A2000 manual. A strange exception is that one pin that is called "DACK0" in the A2000 manual is called "SHITHEAD" in the Commodore System Schematics A2000 Rev. 6 (Nov. '91) from Software Hut!) Lucky you got spare 8520s. I messed U300 up Saturday, so I don't get the proper signal out of PB3 (pin 13), but I understand the only source of replacements any more is other Amigas. 🙁 Bart
#189151From: daniel stripesMar 15, 1995 7:13 PM
>>pin that is called "DACK0" in the A2000 manual I have scoured the schematics in my AmigaR 2000 manual, including the AmigaR 2000 Update pages and can find no such critter. Could you point me to the right page and location? //daniel \X/ AP 1.77
#189358From: Bart MathiasMar 17, 1995 12:29 PM
(Drat! I'm sure there was a "Load from Clipboard" option in my previous version of AutoPilot. "Help" doesn't help either.) Anyway, instead of "DACK0" I should have said "_DACK 0 at pin B19 of connector CN700 in appendix F, page 9 (F-9), showing the IBM expansion busses." Sorry for the omission. Bart
#189513From: daniel stripesMar 18, 1995 6:08 PM
We must have different manuals. I can't find that critter anywhere. In fact, I can't even find CN700. //daniel \X/ AP 1.77
#189611From: Bart MathiasMar 19, 1995 7:37 PM
My manual is copyright 1985, 1986, 1987, nine chapters and appendices A-F. Appendix F is Schematics, comprising 12 of them. #1, U100 (the 68000); #2, audio, with Paula; #3, serial, with U301; #4, power (CN400) + ?; #5, memory; #6, the Amiga expansion bus; #7, the IBM 8-bit and 6-bit expansion busses. #7 is the one I referred to. Bart
#189626From: daniel stripesMar 19, 1995 9:15 PM
Like I said, we must be looking at different manuals. Although the copyright information, chapter numbering and appendix lettering is the same, the pages within appendix F seem to be different. The pages in my Appendix F are: F-3 U1 (68000), U6-U9, U26, U27. F-4 U10-U11 (the 8520s), keyboard, parallel, serial, floppy connectors. F-5 OSC 1 (28.63636 MHz) and the clock circuitry. F-6 U30, U31, U34-U49 (DRAM). F-7 U50 (8361 Agnus), U51-U54. F-8 U55 (Paula), Audio, Joystick/Mouse ports. F-9 U76 (8362 Denise), J8 (Modulator), J9 (RGB-Male). F-10 J19 (MMU Connector), U58-U64, J20-J24. F-11 U5 (PAL 20L8), U65 (OKI 6242B). F-12 J25-J28 & J29-J32 (IBM buswork), J2 (Power supply distribution). And nowhere a CN700 or Sh*thead. Thanks anyhow. I guess if I've not had problem(s) thus far, then it's not important. //daniel \X/ AP 1.77
#189690From: michael eganMar 20, 1995 7:29 PM
In reference to the connector cn700 (IBM 8 bit expansion bus connector), what information are you looking for? // Mike COMPUSERVE: 71261,3013 \X/ (Via AutoPilot 1.77) PORTAL: MikeEgan@cup.portal.com
#189716From: daniel stripesMar 20, 1995 10:17 PM
_DACK 0 at pin B19 of connector CN700. //daniel \X/ AP 1.77
#190095From: Bart MathiasMar 24, 1995 11:51 AM
Surprising differences! On my board and in my manual the 68000 is U100 rather than U1, Paula is U200, Denise U201, etc. I didn't know the different revisions differed that much. (I have an early Rev. 6–I recall seeing "Feb 1989" stamped someplace inside the cover.) Anyway, it's the full-size schematics I bought as a "service manual" that have the "****head" connection, not the user's manual. Bart