exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Good progress. :thumbup:

Dried, plugged in. Current consumption was ok. :)



Ok, fired up. It responded and erased just fine. 8-)




@exxos - What's the most appropriate fw to flash on it?

edit - I just put https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/last ... NT30SS.zip on there. I'll solder the header pins and cpu socket tomorrow.

You need the BETA1SS firmware else you probably kill the osc or PLD.

Reflashed with BETA1SS fw. Headers and socket added.

Then I hit the first snag. I discovered I have no free 030s :? Removing them is a perilous task.
I'm not doing that again. :shock: :shock: :chairsmack:





This will take a couple of days to fix.

:o :o :o Never seen that happen before..

exxos wrote: 30 Nov 2025 13:22 :o :o :o Never seen that happen before..

I don't want to see that happen again. Far too much haste.

spen wrote: 30 Nov 2025 14:48 I don't want to see that happen again. Far too much haste.

I use a wallpaper scraper to start it off :)

Hopefully you will have better luck getting running than others are having.. I'm fast running out of things to fix :roll:

Ouch ! :shock:

I have also my tool to remove that kind of CPUs:

exxos wrote: 30 Nov 2025 14:56
I'm fast running out of things to fix :roll:

I'm sure everyone could generate lots of ideas !! :lol: :lol:

HigashiJun wrote: 01 Dec 2025 01:23 Ouch ! :shock:

I have also my tool to remove that kind of CPUs:

I like it. :) I'm thinking of two ways forward, but it'll be a few days. No more broken 030s, or anything PGA.