There is not a lot of documentation on the CUDA or EGRET chip in terms of troubleshooting. How does it work? Well, I’ll do my best to document that here. Soft Power One of the core uses of the CUDA chip is soft power for AIO Macs like the 550Continue Reading
A good customer sent us their Amiga 600 which was not booting. They had gone through reviewing various signals, like _RST, checked voltages and so on. They saw that the 555 was not putting out a proper signal, but couldn’t sort it out. That’s where we come in! We startedContinue Reading
I wanted to write about this Macintosh Classic as it stumped me for a bit. We had replaced UH6 which is a LS174 that handles timing for the CAS circuit. When booted, the system just showed a sad Mac with the error code 0000000e. This error means there has beenContinue Reading
Have boards you need worked on? Feel free to reach out to us! We work on more than Amiga as well. We’ve worked on PC motherboards, Xbox 360s and more! We can also do NESRGB installations! Let us know how we can be of service.Continue Reading
March is upon us, which means it is time for Marchintosh! Marchintosh is when we celebrate all things Macintosh. During the month of March we will be offering lower prices on our services. Not only that, we will be documenting as many jobs as possible. Making YouTube videos highlighting specialContinue Reading
We were recently sent a TRS-80 for restoration. Here is a list of work done: Replace all capacitors Replace the old battery Clean up damage from two capacitors Fix any broken solder joints Ultrasonic the boardContinue Reading
We’ve working with a client to get our hands on two boards they’ve had stored away. While stored away, a family of mice made it their home. Our goal is simple, clean the boards up and identify whether they can be fixed. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJd7AlM-PULP61-2NCovIuA We will be doing aContinue Reading
This Amiga 600 came in as the owner wanted to replace the IDE header. Through the consulting process we helped acquire the new headers. Here is a complete overview of work performed : Header removed Pads were cleaned with Amtech flux and soldering braid Sony audio chip was cleaned withContinue Reading
A close friend of mine Paul sent over 4 boards for repair. I’ve successfully got 3/4 booting with the 4th one needing a new Agnus socket. Many of them only needed simple things like a new CPU socket (we’ll definitely do more!) I’ve done my best to take detailed photosContinue Reading
This Amiga 1200 was sent in to get some loving. We removed the old naughty capacitors and replaced them with happy little capacitors. This board overall was pretty clean, not much needed. However there were a few bad capacitors, one 10uf by the composite out and one over by theContinue Reading