Help Required with an A3000
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:17 am
Greetings, I'd like to start by saying I was directed here by the kind folks over on r/Amiga, over a thread asking for advice.
To summarize: I bought an A3000 for a steal, came with most everything... but the unit needs some work, the Floppy Disk Drive is damaged, it also has 2 HDDs and I'm certain neither of them work. It also has a problem displaying the whole screen on normal bootup, it attempts to detect something from the second scsi unit (suggested to be a non-existant CD-Rom Drive by a Redditor) but fails.
I'm simply attempting to get this thing in working shape, I made good on what little I know about Amiga Computers, I made sure to remove the battery and carefully clean the traces with a brush and neutralize any corrosion.
Taking suggestions from others I have booted it into AmigaDOS and discovered that it's running some version of AmigaOS 3.9, I made sure to order a CD-ROM Drive and I'm working on procuring a Floppy Disk Drive that would be compatible.
I'm currently trying to find someone who does repair in the United States (preferably the East Coast where I live), but in the mean time I'd like any suggestions on what I can do to fix this unit on my own, or at the very least improve it, or the parts I'd need for whoever is repairing it.
Pictures
Startup on VGA
To summarize: I bought an A3000 for a steal, came with most everything... but the unit needs some work, the Floppy Disk Drive is damaged, it also has 2 HDDs and I'm certain neither of them work. It also has a problem displaying the whole screen on normal bootup, it attempts to detect something from the second scsi unit (suggested to be a non-existant CD-Rom Drive by a Redditor) but fails.
I'm simply attempting to get this thing in working shape, I made good on what little I know about Amiga Computers, I made sure to remove the battery and carefully clean the traces with a brush and neutralize any corrosion.
Taking suggestions from others I have booted it into AmigaDOS and discovered that it's running some version of AmigaOS 3.9, I made sure to order a CD-ROM Drive and I'm working on procuring a Floppy Disk Drive that would be compatible.
I'm currently trying to find someone who does repair in the United States (preferably the East Coast where I live), but in the mean time I'd like any suggestions on what I can do to fix this unit on my own, or at the very least improve it, or the parts I'd need for whoever is repairing it.
Pictures
Startup on VGA