We next checked to make sure all the important chips had power such as the 68000, denise, agnus and paula. We now connected up and powered on the amiga with nothing connected other than power supply and modulator to be presented with a brown screen!Īfter a bit of investigation into Amiga colour error codes there was no reference to a brown screen. Following with a good spray and scrub with Isopropyl alcohol to remove any vinegar residue. We de-soldered the offending battery and scrubbed the area affected with a toothbrush, first with distilled white vinegar to remove and neutralise the leaking battery fluid. However on further inspection it was evident that the memory expansion had suffered from the dreaded varta battery leakage and required immediate removal. We opened the trapdoor on the bottom of the case, we removed the memory expansion, it was actually quite a good one that upgraded the amiga's 512k or ram to 2mb which for this computer was a dream amount in its day. The first thing to be done was to investigate the condition of the memory expansion installed.
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