Commodore Amiga CD32 Repair - From Snow on the screen & fishy smells to a Spinning CD of Delight
This time we are looking at my Commodore Amiga CD32 games console. I knew I was in trouble the second I opened the box it was stored in and was hit with the smell of fishy capacitors. Connecting it up proved me right, all that was displayed was a black screen with small white pixels slowly moving down it, looking like snow.
In this I see if just changing all the capacitors with new ones will bring it back to life or will it need something more?
Useful links:
Found this website very useful, as well as Amiga CD32, other Amiga boards represented and has a useful feature where if you hover over a particular component, it shows you the value of the component as well as what else it connects to on the PCB.
Heres the general website address, from here, select your board from the pulldown menu at the top click on it to see what components go where:
https://www.amigapcb.org/
Amigawiki for schematics of the Amiga CD32
Heres the general site for various Amigas: https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id...
Heres the PDF schematic for V3 of the Amiga CD32: https://www.amigawiki.org/dnl/schemat...
and heres for V4 of the board: https://www.amigawiki.org/dnl/schemat...
No affiliation, found here to buy a replacement Amiga CD32 ribbon connector for the PCB
https://amigastore.eu/786-amiga-cd32-...
Music by Damien Sebe - snowglobe - https://thmatc.co/?l=324FE917
Music by Orange Bloom - Can't Believe You_ - https://thmatc.co/?l=14409FDD
Music by Carlos Stephens - LOST MUSIC - https://thmatc.co/?l=35CFC009
Music by Ariee - Bonus Track - https://thmatc.co/?l=B46213FB
