Hi everyone!
Yesterday I bought an Amiga 2000 from a local guy for pretty cheap, as a companion to an A2000 I'd built up and then put in storage 7+ years ago. I pulled my original A2000 out of the storage locker today and have been playing with them both, but with unhappy results. Both machines still have their original motherboard batteries, and both batteries appear to have leaked at least somewhat onto the motherboard. The "new" A2000 has some visible gunk on the motherboard around the battery, while my "old" A2000 has quite a bit more (
http://i.imgur.com/p36Wgfe.jpg). Setting that issue aside for the moment, here's the current situation with each machine:
1. My "old" A2000 is equipped with a Progressive Peripherals Zeus 040 (
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/zeus2040) board with an onboard SCSI hard drive and maxed-out RAM slots, and an Ethernet board in another slot. When I power this machine on, it comes right up (despite the battery leakage on the motherboard) but cannot boot from the internal drive - I get this odd error when it tries to boot (
http://i.imgur.com/F42KJfZ.jpg). Given how much time has passed since I first set this machine up, I honestly don't remember if used to boot from the internal SCSI drive on the Zeus board or if I needed some sort of enabler floppy to boot. Any pointers here? The machine boots fine from a Kickstart floppy, but won't read the internal SCSI drive at all.
2. My "new" A2000 (
http://imgur.com/a/R7RRc) is in rougher shape. It has a Genlock board, a Commodore-branded 2MB RAM board in one slot, and a GVP Impact 2000 SCSI + RAM board (
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/impact2000scsi1) in another, connected to some sort of very large (physically) SCSI hard drive in the HDD bay. Despite the seller having shared recent pics of it powered up and asking for a boot disk, I can't get any response whatsoever, other than the PSU fan spinning. I've tried reseating (and removing) the expansion boards, reseating the PSU cable, etc., but other than the PSU fan I can't get any sign of life. The Power light never comes on, the hard drive doesn't spin, and it never attempts to read a floppy (or even spin the floppy drive, as best I can tell).
Any tips on where I might proceed with either machine? I think it's fair to guess that my immediate next step will be to cut out those funky old motherboard batteries and try to clean off the battery leakage from the motherboards, but beyond that, I'm not sure. I suppose I could try transplanting the PSU from my semi-working A2000 to the totally-dead A2000, if that seems smart...
Thanks for any tips you might share!
