ScuzzBlog: Diaries February 2020 Entry 26th February 2020: Post 01: Eyetech EZ-Tower - Down but not out. Eyetech EZ-Tower - Down but not out. There is line from Big Bang by Sheldon Cooper that goes .... "Oh Gravity, Thou Art a Heartless Bitch". I reflect on this every single time my Eyetech EZ-Tower starts playing up. This computer is a bit of a Frankenstein that I built from all my spare bits I had lying around the workshop. I really am not a great fan of the A1200 in a tower and wouldn't do it myself had I not had these spare bits at my disposal. Sadly though, after about three months of active use she starts to play up and then just refuses to boot. However, after I remove the board and then reconnect back up she will work fine. I have her running on an Iiyima VGA monitor generally though this is not featured here. She hasn't worked since the new year and so I removed the motherboard first and tested that for any faults. And so this is how the day went. By the way I have like over 30 Amiga 1200s working and I never like ever think it's a capacitor issue. And if you can't spot a failing PSU just by listening to it then you are nor going to get very far using Amiga kit. Suffice to say that capacitors and power supplies are not even on my fault finding list, though I do make an effort here to photograph each and every capacitor to show off their shiny feet. Read on. Eyetech EZ-Tower - Down but not out. If you plug an A1200 motherboard into the power with just the mouse and an external floppy drive she should boot. The computer takes a while to boot without an accelerator and or hard drive fitted. So I plugged in the power, mouse and floppy drive to check she was working OK. And she booted just fine. Note the 3.1 ROM. OK booting from DF1 so DF0:???? is to be expected. This is a Rev 1.D.4. Motherboard. And that is a Blizzard 1230IV plugged in. 3.1 ROM chips. Flicker 'fixery' thingy Part 1. Flicker 'fixery' thingy Part 2 though not connected at this time. I am using a black CDTV monitor today. You know I have no idea what that light brown thing is for. Must check. This motherboard has the mouse port plug in version which is a super good idea. I use the EZ mouse adaptor so I can use a PC mouse. That is a blob of solder on the capacitor. OK Capacitor check... Nothing to report so far and she is booting just fine. Time to test for sound so I fire up a bit of Arcade Snooker. No problem there. A base Amiga 1200 is super slow sadly without an accelerator. And what better than a Blizzard 1230IV. That is much better. And 32MB RAM so I am happy that the motherboard is working fine. Time to go drag the EZ-Tower onto the bench.. Oh woe ! Lucky me. Be aware that no capacitors were harmed in the making of this blog page !! Read on Pt II

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