[00:46] <daftykins> i came home with the amiga 500 from my parents house! :D
[00:46] <daftykins> the original PSU outputs good voltages on all rails, but so far it just displays a white screen over the RGB to SCART cable and the floppy drive gurgles
[00:57] <penguin42> good luck!
[00:58] <daftykins> i've truly no idea right now xD
[00:59] <penguin42> I'm guessing there are some guides to common faults; I'd start by pushing all the chips down
[00:59] <daftykins> apparently it's executing code if it has gotten this far
[01:00] <daftykins> yeah i've popped quite a few, sprayed on WD40 contact cleaner and rubbed with a brush along all the single wipe sockets, then pushed the chips back in
[01:00] <penguin42> my oldest Model B is very very touchy; I had to push all the chips down before getting any life at all
[01:01] <penguin42> I've not actually tried the cleaner yet
[01:01] <daftykins> i'm considering a PLCC chip puller tool for the FAT AGNUS
[01:08] <daftykins> definitely needs more thinking and research ahead of buying anything though :)
[01:38] <daftykins> maybe it was working and it's just that 16 kHz weirdness thing?
[01:45] <penguin42> 16 kHz?
[01:51] <daftykins> yeah i think that's a less common horizontal sync rate no?
[01:51] <daftykins> amusingly all my chip pulling ended now as after taking the ROM out and putting it in again, i'm mostly getting nothing
[01:52] <daftykins> might need to pull the board from the case and inspect the rear solder joints on things, but i'm really just stabbing in the dark :D
[01:53] <daftykins> anywho i had best focus on the paid stuff
[02:02] <penguin42> anything interesting?
[02:04] <daftykins> tomorrow i'll be returning to dental practice #1, pal is on holiday so i get to put the "phantom head" test calibration device into the OPG x-ray in his room and get it calibrated with help from a UK supplier :)
[02:05] <daftykins> it'll mean standing outside and holding the serious "go" button for a while, hah
[02:05] <daftykins> besides that i visited a woodwork client today, some cheap intel 7th gen acer laptop must have decided it had enough of life in such a sawdust-heavy environment, as it gave up
[02:06] <daftykins> i was over at my parents after picking it up, got it working again quite easily!
[02:06] <penguin42> oh, needs something like a toughbook or the like for that type of env
[02:06] <penguin42> or remote
[02:07] <daftykins> hah yeah, i think they'll keep doing the cheap approach of inflicting torture on the poor things
[02:07] <daftykins> i think getting him to stop using the internal keyboard and moving to an external will make a huge difference at least
[02:07] <penguin42> nod
[02:08] <daftykins> i'm kinda leaning toward selling them the ThinkPad i got for myself last, as i don't really need it - kinda wonder how it'd take to the environment though as well
[02:08] <daftykins> they have a little side office with a door in one of their 2 workshops, but the worktop is definitely caked in a layer
[02:09] <penguin42> any idea where it's air intake is?
[02:10] <daftykins> hmm will have to glance at both again
[02:10] <daftykins> i'll have to see if he wants the old back just to make it to the weekend when he goes away, then i could work on the switch whilst he's on holiday possibly
[23:36] <daftykins> there's a naked Amiga 500 rev 5 board on my desk
[23:36] <daftykins> it has yet to be harmed
[23:41] <zxmpi> tell it you prefer zx spectrums :-P
[23:43] <daftykins> then it definitely won't work!