ScuzzBlog: Diaries March 2021 Entry 27th March 2021: Post 1: Amiga 4000/030 - No mouse to boot. Amiga 4000/030 - No mouse to boot. In 2010 I was invited by a friend to collect a whole bag of Amiga kit. Amongst the items was this busted Amiga 4000/030. The poor machine was broken and in pieces. The daughter-board was lying on the motherboard. Nothing was connected. There was no processor on the board and the power supply was disconnected and loose inside the case. I connected her up and replaced one or two parts and I discovered the mouse port to be broken. Interestingly at the time I did try a hard drive and that didn't work either. Additionally the memory was dodgy and not picking up the extra RAM on the computer. I have tried since and failed. There appears to be some corrosion still around the battery which was removed. There is a very mangled looking chip to the base of the SIMM slots. Also the area around the Video DAC looks suspect. Given that I had checked over a spare A4000 IDE on Graham just the other day I decided to have another go. I reseated the memory and firmly connected the IDE and floppy cables plus the processor. I must have done something cus she booted first time. What is more all the memory was visible. Incredible !!! Sadly the mouse was still bust which is probably a faulty chip. I resorted to using the keyboard commands to move around. I was more than a little chuffed I have to say. I couldn't see any obvious leaks from capacitors. Floppy was also working. She was nearly good enough to label working.... Who am I kidding. She's fine. Anyway time to celebrate with some LoL [ League of Legends ]. I'm sure I will make the world finals this year. Odd that the group K/DA take their name from the LoL tag 'Kill Death Assist'. Weird. LINK: Pheonix featuring Cailin Russo and Chrissy Costanza - Worlds 2019 Amiga 4000/030 - No mouse to boot. Commodore 1541 Just ignore this ... m'kay Commodore 1541 disk access video Commodore 1541 disk format video

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