ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2018 Entry 9th May 2018: Post: 1 A590 - Party Mix Today I have been mostly ... I was intending focussing in on the A570 as a follow up to the feature on the CDTV. However, as ever I got distracted by items that revealed themselves as I dug out all the relevant stuff. First up I got interested in this Amiga 590 that had a label on the bottom saying it was busted when I checked in 2004. There was no further detail and so I decided to take the unit apart and have a good look. I was somewhat perplexed as to why there was no disk or power activity and then realised the LED wiring had been disconnected and removed. The hard drive was a beast of a thing and really wasn't giving out any noise what so ever, so I kinda concluded it was that, that was bust. As to the rest of the board I couldn't find anything that looked suspicious. Populated with 2MB and certainly not suffering with AMNESIA as one of the jumper settings is labelled. Those guys at Commodore did have a fine sense of humour. Also the usual B-52's reference with Party Mix on the board. Any-hoo I did what you should never do and that was simply connect the mobo into the A500 expansion side slot and that showed the memory working along with the board. I then hooked the hard drive back up but got no joy out of that. So I labelled the drive as having a faulty hard drive and left it at that. Found this manual whilst digging around Sadly for me not in the English... But hey No LED lights or cables attached OK release the last of the screws Maybe I should edit the defects list That's one big XT drive Different power socket to the basic Amiga B-52's always very popular Jumper 1 and zero memory means AMNESIA That external SCSI pass thro' very useful Not something I recommend you ever do The RAM on the board is working fine The A590 being picked up by SysInfo No hard drive sadly... Time to put it in the freezer.. or was it the 'Love Shack Baby' OK time to update my label from 2004

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