Ripping Apart A Classic Computer!

The Battery Died: A Lesson in Flexibility

I've heard that phrase countless times on YouTube videos - "the battery died, how many times have you heard that?" Well, it finally happened to me too. Thankfully, my iPhone automatically took over recording audio, even though the wireless mic was still plugged in. As a result, the audio may sound a little up and down and weird, but I believe it's still fairly intelligible. This experience has taught me to be more flexible when working with unpredictable technology.

The Commodore 64: A Challenge Worth Overcoming

When I started working on my Commodore 64, I encountered a significant obstacle - the absence of a through hole in the floppy tray that would allow me to access the screw underneath the motherboard. This design choice made it necessary for me to remove the entire mechanism, which was frustrating because I had to pop off the front panel, already showing signs of wear and tear. The tabs on the front panel were barely holding on, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness as I watched them struggle. Despite this setback, I persevered and eventually managed to extract the motherboard from its cage.

The Motherboard Extraction: A Successful Adventure

Extracting the motherboard from my Commodore 64 was an exciting experience that tested my skills and patience. The process involved removing the front panel, which had become a familiar ritual for me after dealing with similar designs on other Amiga models. I had previously extracted motherboards from Amiga 3000s, but this one presented new challenges due to its design. With some careful maneuvering, I managed to remove the motherboard without any major issues.

The Motherboard Inspection: A Closer Look

Once I had successfully extracted the motherboard, I took a closer look at it to see what was going on. To my surprise, the board was in excellent condition, with no signs of damage or wear. The Buster chip, which is notorious for its temperamental nature, was functioning perfectly without any issues. The board's surface mount design made it difficult to identify individual components, but I managed to confirm that the Kickstart ROMs and 3.2 TWS were present on the board.

The Road Ahead: Reassembling the Commodore 64

With the motherboard extracted and inspected, I now had to put everything back together again. This was the exact reverse of extracting the motherboard - a daunting task that required patience and attention to detail. I planned ahead to ensure that this process would be more efficient than the first time around, but I knew it wouldn't be easy. The video slot portion of the board still didn't work, at least not on an initial examination. However, I was confident that Dr. Chris, who had built the 4000, would take a closer look and identify any issues.

The Final Touches: Reassembling the Commodore 64

After reassembling the Commodore 64, I was excited to see if it would work as expected. The experience of building and disassembling this machine had been both educational and entertaining. While I won't be sharing a time-lapse video of the reassembly process, I did manage to get everything working smoothly once again. The only thing left to do was to package up the motherboard for Dr. Chris and send it off for further analysis.

The 4000: A Machine Worth Understanding

As I reflect on my experience with the Commodore 64, I'm reminded of the importance of understanding complex machines like this one. While the design may seem straightforward at first glance, there are always unexpected challenges waiting to be uncovered. The 4000 is a machine that requires patience and attention to detail, but its unique features make it fascinating to work with. By extracting the motherboard and reassembling the Commodore 64, I gained a deeper appreciation for the inner workings of this iconic computer.

The Future: New Challenges and Opportunities

As I move forward in my adventures with computers, I'm excited to take on new challenges and explore new opportunities. The experience of working with the Commodore 64 has taught me the importance of flexibility and perseverance. Whether it's exploring unusual designs or tackling complex technical issues, I'm confident that these skills will serve me well in the future. For now, I'm content to bask in the glow of a successfully reassembled machine - a true testament to my dedication to this craft.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome back to hold and modify YouTube's most poorly produced under produced Amiga Channel and it is Q again I have to do something I really don't like doing with these and that is not just opening them up but opening them up and completely totally ripping it apart rule the world amigo 4,040 this came out in 1992 give you a really really fast history lesson here 1992 with the 6840 this was the last hurra the final big box Amiga from Commodore released the the 1200 and the 600 and the 4,000 all around the same time the cd32 this was the placement for the 3,000 2,000 lineup so you could have all your expansion slots and put your Video Toaster 4,000 in there which was the brand new card of the time it was the the new and improved toaster and that was a big selling point I think even the company new tech who made the toaster had something to do with this maybe they had a little bit input making sure that of course the toaster could fit in the box cuz one of the problems with the video toaster is that it did not fit in the amga 3000's case without modifying you had to like cut it open you know it's kind of a kind of a bummer got the 4,000 on this blanket here folks because I've got this fancy granite countertop and uh these computers tend to carve the crap of it crap out of it yeah uh so this 4,000 in pretty good shape tape it was actually originally restored by Chris Edwards that's why there was that little magnet up there and he did an amazing job putting this uh together and cleaning it up making it all pretty complete recap it actually runs amazing it runs amazing there was an issue with the video slot so the video slot uh was just being a bit of a that was being a bit of a pecker and I just did not want to work so I could put Zoro cards in the video slot so the the video slot comprises of aora slot and then the actual RGB video slot the RGB video portion of that slot was bad yes we we tried different daughter cards we swapped the motherboard tried my daughter card with the a known working board to make sure it wasn't a daughter card issue that wasn't it looked all over the board couldn't really see anything at an initial glance so Dr Chris being the cool Superman that he is was like listen send the board back let me look at it maybe I can figure something out meanwhile he has sent me a replacement board and I need to of course swap it out and that's why I have to tear this all apart and take you all on this lovely little journey of disassembling an Amiga now I'm going to just kind of do a time lapse on this and I'll I'll stop at Key interesting points of uh of notation maybe to have you look at it and be like oh what is that what is this what is this going to do one of the neat things I always like to check out by the way is the uh some of these like original stickers either from commer or from the vendor who was selling it yeah this has the Seagate 120 megga originally hard drive in it of course as you can see here now it has a compact flash hard drive which you can easily yank out this USB card with the uh ethernet uh I have this on most of my big box Amigas actually I think all of them have a 10/100 ethernet card it does have these USB ports which of course get you really excited uh thinking I got USB on my Mig as well unfortunately no this 10100 card requires an additional module that you have to plug in and then connect those two and sadly uh I I don't know if that module's just no longer available or nobody's making a knockoff version of it or whatever I don't have it so I don't have USB but it hasn't been that big of a deal especially since the hard drive is so accessible right here and of course having a network connection having USB isn't really that big of a deal so uh yeah this expansion port cover is missing probably should try and find one of those one day but let me go ahead and get this 4,000 open now some of you may ask was this the only model cuz I did I kind of just R rattled that off pretty fast there was uh in 1993 about a year later they did come out with a cost reduced version and it was a a 68 E30 I believe so this is the 6040 kind of a proper 25 MHz 6040 with all the with all the goodness in it and then they came out with a kind of a stripped out you know strip down 68 E30 which is basically an 030 without the FPU I believe uh I mean look it was a way to get somebody a big box Amiga with the a chipset the ability to put in their cards and not have to spend the big big cash on the CPU card I guess save some money that way and maybe not everyone really needed all that CPU power they maybe they just needed what was going on in here plus the AJ I don't everyone has their reasons right yeah this 4,000 still has the original this board does the original plastic cover on the uh inputs there I'll leave that on there that comes with the motherboard so it'll stay with the motherboard all right let's get this cracked open I'll be using my trusty LTT screwdriver uh LTT store.com of course there you go line us you send me my check now please no I I don't get any checks you guys know that of course don't do anything in this channel except uh talk about old am stuff all right so let's pull this off so it doesn't get damaged or lost it's very important and let's get the proper bit for this need the the fat boy here also if you are using either this Screwdriver from LT or other similar styles that have the really really powerful magnetic tip Mount here keep this away from your mega floppies remember that if you're working with a retro gear and you're around floppies this is not something you want to be messing with you I was just at Harbor Freight the other day I could I could have gotten one of those magnetic Parts trays and I really regret not doing that yeah want to see how wrong these screws are you can see these way down here but uh they're really wrong very very very wrong those should be the same screws and I don't think either one of those is actually the correct screw Chris Edwards did not ship it to me this way I will make note of that I did not get shipped this with improper screws he shipped this with all the correct screws I had since taken it apart a couple times since getting it back from him and failed to uh failed to house keep properly let's just say that and look at this you get to see the beautiful inside here look at all the goodness here there's the EET card I was talking and blabbing about here's of course the IDE drive and if you look over here you'll see a secondary hard drive there's actually two drives I have two options I have my CF card back here and then I have the SD up here I haven't done a complete disassembly of a 4,000 in so long that I don't know if I actually remember everything and you you're a cued well why do you is it that is it this important that you need to do this sort of yeah because I have a video toaster of 4,000 and I want to make a video on the video toaster 4000 I don't I'm not a toaster guy a lot of people because I do LightWave videos think I know all about the toaster I don't I never really had one I never I mean I sold them so my familiarity was just enough of the marketing material that it shipped with to try and sell people Video Toaster mostly what I was selling was video toasters because people wanted light wave so I was selling them LightWave and then the toas just came with it and it was a big dongle was a big card that was plugged into their Amiga that was like a software dongle basically they didn't even care about the toaster so I want to make a toaster video because I want to figure out some basic principles behind it and how it works and show it but without a functioning video slot I can't show the toaster off I also do have a Picasso 4 card which is currently in the omiga 3000 I'm probably going to leave it in the igga 3000 because this 4000 here has a Mark II in it just like the 1200 in fact you can kind of see it underneath here I'll show you to you once I start pulling this all apart I I of course wanted to do the easy thing which was just ship Chris my entire 4,000 and have him take it all apart I mean he's doing this you know sort of as a as a free pair you know I mean I did actually pay for this 4,000 originally but you know of course he does his his maintenance and his his warranty work and would have been easier for me to send him back the whole computer of course it would have been it's kind of a dick thing to do too cuz now like he has the time he has so much going on in his life he wants to rip this all apart to do a motherboard swap of course not that would just be kind of rude and and in fact uh if he didn't say uh if he had said yes to that if he's like fine go ahead and send your whole computer which I don't think he would because that would be crazy I I wouldn't have done it anyway I would have been like no that's ridiculous I'm not going to send you my whole computer I will take the time to rip it apart get it over to you as just a motherboard so here we are taking out the Mark III this is the mark III's HDMI output for the flicker fixer which is jammed onto the motherboard which I can actually now take off here it is that's the inivision mark iiii flicker fixer for the igga 4000 and yes the omiga 4000 is is a specific version the 1200 is the board is basically inverted it's flipped the other way so you can't you can't just use them on each other if you didn't know that now you do and we'll go ahead and pull out the amazing networking card we'll try and pull it out ow okay if you're not bleeding then you're not doing your job 10/100 networking and a potential USB card except uh you know this is where the USB jingus would go don't have it anybody know if they still make those anybody I I can't find them I'm just asking you in case somebody's like oh yeah I've got like six in my basement that I never use 256 megabyte Ram expansion this thing is awesome on top of the 16 Megs that are in here so the new motherboard Chris has sent me he has assured me it has the the memory populated in the battery so I'm just going to send this back the my 4000 has a a REV 11 Buster the swap board he's giving me also has a REV 11 Buster so that's all going to be the same I believe he said he sent me a new daughter board as well uh we have confirmed that mine does work it's not the daughter board but he went ahead and sent me one of those just in case all right there's your daughter card from the 4,000 looks very similar to the 3000 now if I recall unlike the Amega 3000 you can boot up a 4,000 without the daughter card installed I believe it'll get you to the Kickstart screen or something all right so if you look down in here you can see more of the goodies go ahead and pull off this IDE cable get that out of the way get going to see this amazing fan this is my noct TOA cooling fan which I use to help assist you guys see this here I helped cool the 60860 this The BFG 9060 which was this awesome uh kavanau guy uh took the design and made the um makes the boards from the design that were that was provided everyone's all the credits are right here on the on the board but yeah you do need to supply your own 060 of course and i' got that fortunately yeah that can just lift straight up and out there you go it's a nice board beautiful board right it's pretty cool oh there it is aan O's signature 11 322 is when you put that together for me it's awesome yeah so the good news is the expansions cards in the back so these are through they don't they're not I don't think they're secured to the back of this if you had this this thing in here or this got the if you had the cereals little doers in then you couldn't just lift the motherboard out but as you can see I never put those back probably for this very reason hey it's editor Q here and I just wanted to let you know that for the rest of this video the audio is going to sound a little strange that's because my recording mic uh it's wireless and the battery died how many times have you heard that in YouTube videos yep finally happened to me battery died thankfully the iPhone just automatically took over recording audio even though the wireless mic was still plugged in so from now on yeah the audio is going to sound a little up and down and weird but it's still I think fairly intelligible so hopefully you can still enjoy my blathering all right back to the show commodor did not provide a through hole in this tray to get to the screw underneath for the motherboard so this whole mechanism does have to come out which means I mean if I had like a little fancy angle screwdriver I could probably get in there and do it means I have to pop the front of the 4,000 case off which I hate doing because the tabs are already getting worn on it pretty busted up barely on there as it is it's very very sad actually see Dr Chris just twerk on these and pop them off but I mean if you look closely on mine I'm these are working these are working this corner bottom one is missing its little footy though frustrating so yeah unfortunately this whole cage has to come out and there's the the front of the 4,000 it's naked naked front I wish I did have I have a CD round drive I can put in here and I just don't have a long enough cable that works with dual IDE devices still so that's why it's often just a big gaping hole now we are finally to board extract mode and yes the motherboard has all of its original screws because Dr Chris put this together and I did not take the motherboard out ever because I don't like like doing this in fact this might be my first 4,000 motherboard extract ever because I did the 3000 which was my first Amiga big box board extract ever was the my three my 3000 because I took out the completely destroyed 3000 original motherboard and replaced it with a rioma 3000 board and I have a whole playlist of videos in my Channel about that if you want to see that and then of course I've done the get 1 12200 multiple times I have the nice thing about the 1200 is so easy to just rip that board in and out of that thing especially if you don't put in all the little dinguses in the back ports it just makes life so much easier oh 4,000 Engineers I love them so not only do we not have a through hole in the floppy tray to get to the motherboard screw there's no way to get to the screw that's under here uh because this is in the way yeah for over function function over form what other what's the right word for that all right so there we have it I believe they should just come out with zero effort Tada we have extracted the omga 4000 board yay there you go I've got my Kickstart ROMs my 3.2 tws um I'll confirm with Chris that that's what's on the board he sent me I'm sure it is if not that's just a quick Swap and yeah as you can see original boards so none of these chips are socketed they're all surface mount and that includes the Buster so it does have a uh 11 there yeah she has 11 Buster already has this no battery damage whatsoever on this board super clean yeah it's just really bizarre the board is I mean it's darn near Flawless it's a little crunchy grungy monkey in the ports area but there was nothing obvious that would State why the video slot portion of this board does not work nothing that we could find really at least on an initial exam and he's going to have this now in hand and he can he can deep dive on it and check it out me package this up and get this sent off to him and then I will uh see what he says and then in the meantime yeah I'll have to go ahead and reassemble the 4,000 and put her all back together that'll be so exciting it's the exact reverse of this hopefully have a functioning video slot but yeah guess what I'm going to save that for another video why because I'm not going to make you sit through an entire time-lapse video of reassembling the 4,000 as a video that was this video that video is going to be hey I reassembled the 4,000 and it worked yay now let's check out the video toaster yeah see that's what I'm doing I'm trying to trying to plan things a little bit so I hope you enjoyed watching this tear down of Amiga 4000 to extract the motherboard we've had success and it's my first time doing a 4,000 this way to this level of Destruction actually thanks for watching I'm done with this videohello and welcome back to hold and modify YouTube's most poorly produced under produced Amiga Channel and it is Q again I have to do something I really don't like doing with these and that is not just opening them up but opening them up and completely totally ripping it apart rule the world amigo 4,040 this came out in 1992 give you a really really fast history lesson here 1992 with the 6840 this was the last hurra the final big box Amiga from Commodore released the the 1200 and the 600 and the 4,000 all around the same time the cd32 this was the placement for the 3,000 2,000 lineup so you could have all your expansion slots and put your Video Toaster 4,000 in there which was the brand new card of the time it was the the new and improved toaster and that was a big selling point I think even the company new tech who made the toaster had something to do with this maybe they had a little bit input making sure that of course the toaster could fit in the box cuz one of the problems with the video toaster is that it did not fit in the amga 3000's case without modifying you had to like cut it open you know it's kind of a kind of a bummer got the 4,000 on this blanket here folks because I've got this fancy granite countertop and uh these computers tend to carve the crap of it crap out of it yeah uh so this 4,000 in pretty good shape tape it was actually originally restored by Chris Edwards that's why there was that little magnet up there and he did an amazing job putting this uh together and cleaning it up making it all pretty complete recap it actually runs amazing it runs amazing there was an issue with the video slot so the video slot uh was just being a bit of a that was being a bit of a pecker and I just did not want to work so I could put Zoro cards in the video slot so the the video slot comprises of aora slot and then the actual RGB video slot the RGB video portion of that slot was bad yes we we tried different daughter cards we swapped the motherboard tried my daughter card with the a known working board to make sure it wasn't a daughter card issue that wasn't it looked all over the board couldn't really see anything at an initial glance so Dr Chris being the cool Superman that he is was like listen send the board back let me look at it maybe I can figure something out meanwhile he has sent me a replacement board and I need to of course swap it out and that's why I have to tear this all apart and take you all on this lovely little journey of disassembling an Amiga now I'm going to just kind of do a time lapse on this and I'll I'll stop at Key interesting points of uh of notation maybe to have you look at it and be like oh what is that what is this what is this going to do one of the neat things I always like to check out by the way is the uh some of these like original stickers either from commer or from the vendor who was selling it yeah this has the Seagate 120 megga originally hard drive in it of course as you can see here now it has a compact flash hard drive which you can easily yank out this USB card with the uh ethernet uh I have this on most of my big box Amigas actually I think all of them have a 10/100 ethernet card it does have these USB ports which of course get you really excited uh thinking I got USB on my Mig as well unfortunately no this 10100 card requires an additional module that you have to plug in and then connect those two and sadly uh I I don't know if that module's just no longer available or nobody's making a knockoff version of it or whatever I don't have it so I don't have USB but it hasn't been that big of a deal especially since the hard drive is so accessible right here and of course having a network connection having USB isn't really that big of a deal so uh yeah this expansion port cover is missing probably should try and find one of those one day but let me go ahead and get this 4,000 open now some of you may ask was this the only model cuz I did I kind of just R rattled that off pretty fast there was uh in 1993 about a year later they did come out with a cost reduced version and it was a a 68 E30 I believe so this is the 6040 kind of a proper 25 MHz 6040 with all the with all the goodness in it and then they came out with a kind of a stripped out you know strip down 68 E30 which is basically an 030 without the FPU I believe uh I mean look it was a way to get somebody a big box Amiga with the a chipset the ability to put in their cards and not have to spend the big big cash on the CPU card I guess save some money that way and maybe not everyone really needed all that CPU power they maybe they just needed what was going on in here plus the AJ I don't everyone has their reasons right yeah this 4,000 still has the original this board does the original plastic cover on the uh inputs there I'll leave that on there that comes with the motherboard so it'll stay with the motherboard all right let's get this cracked open I'll be using my trusty LTT screwdriver uh LTT store.com of course there you go line us you send me my check now please no I I don't get any checks you guys know that of course don't do anything in this channel except uh talk about old am stuff all right so let's pull this off so it doesn't get damaged or lost it's very important and let's get the proper bit for this need the the fat boy here also if you are using either this Screwdriver from LT or other similar styles that have the really really powerful magnetic tip Mount here keep this away from your mega floppies remember that if you're working with a retro gear and you're around floppies this is not something you want to be messing with you I was just at Harbor Freight the other day I could I could have gotten one of those magnetic Parts trays and I really regret not doing that yeah want to see how wrong these screws are you can see these way down here but uh they're really wrong very very very wrong those should be the same screws and I don't think either one of those is actually the correct screw Chris Edwards did not ship it to me this way I will make note of that I did not get shipped this with improper screws he shipped this with all the correct screws I had since taken it apart a couple times since getting it back from him and failed to uh failed to house keep properly let's just say that and look at this you get to see the beautiful inside here look at all the goodness here there's the EET card I was talking and blabbing about here's of course the IDE drive and if you look over here you'll see a secondary hard drive there's actually two drives I have two options I have my CF card back here and then I have the SD up here I haven't done a complete disassembly of a 4,000 in so long that I don't know if I actually remember everything and you you're a cued well why do you is it that is it this important that you need to do this sort of yeah because I have a video toaster of 4,000 and I want to make a video on the video toaster 4000 I don't I'm not a toaster guy a lot of people because I do LightWave videos think I know all about the toaster I don't I never really had one I never I mean I sold them so my familiarity was just enough of the marketing material that it shipped with to try and sell people Video Toaster mostly what I was selling was video toasters because people wanted light wave so I was selling them LightWave and then the toas just came with it and it was a big dongle was a big card that was plugged into their Amiga that was like a software dongle basically they didn't even care about the toaster so I want to make a toaster video because I want to figure out some basic principles behind it and how it works and show it but without a functioning video slot I can't show the toaster off I also do have a Picasso 4 card which is currently in the omiga 3000 I'm probably going to leave it in the igga 3000 because this 4000 here has a Mark II in it just like the 1200 in fact you can kind of see it underneath here I'll show you to you once I start pulling this all apart I I of course wanted to do the easy thing which was just ship Chris my entire 4,000 and have him take it all apart I mean he's doing this you know sort of as a as a free pair you know I mean I did actually pay for this 4,000 originally but you know of course he does his his maintenance and his his warranty work and would have been easier for me to send him back the whole computer of course it would have been it's kind of a dick thing to do too cuz now like he has the time he has so much going on in his life he wants to rip this all apart to do a motherboard swap of course not that would just be kind of rude and and in fact uh if he didn't say uh if he had said yes to that if he's like fine go ahead and send your whole computer which I don't think he would because that would be crazy I I wouldn't have done it anyway I would have been like no that's ridiculous I'm not going to send you my whole computer I will take the time to rip it apart get it over to you as just a motherboard so here we are taking out the Mark III this is the mark III's HDMI output for the flicker fixer which is jammed onto the motherboard which I can actually now take off here it is that's the inivision mark iiii flicker fixer for the igga 4000 and yes the omiga 4000 is is a specific version the 1200 is the board is basically inverted it's flipped the other way so you can't you can't just use them on each other if you didn't know that now you do and we'll go ahead and pull out the amazing networking card we'll try and pull it out ow okay if you're not bleeding then you're not doing your job 10/100 networking and a potential USB card except uh you know this is where the USB jingus would go don't have it anybody know if they still make those anybody I I can't find them I'm just asking you in case somebody's like oh yeah I've got like six in my basement that I never use 256 megabyte Ram expansion this thing is awesome on top of the 16 Megs that are in here so the new motherboard Chris has sent me he has assured me it has the the memory populated in the battery so I'm just going to send this back the my 4000 has a a REV 11 Buster the swap board he's giving me also has a REV 11 Buster so that's all going to be the same I believe he said he sent me a new daughter board as well uh we have confirmed that mine does work it's not the daughter board but he went ahead and sent me one of those just in case all right there's your daughter card from the 4,000 looks very similar to the 3000 now if I recall unlike the Amega 3000 you can boot up a 4,000 without the daughter card installed I believe it'll get you to the Kickstart screen or something all right so if you look down in here you can see more of the goodies go ahead and pull off this IDE cable get that out of the way get going to see this amazing fan this is my noct TOA cooling fan which I use to help assist you guys see this here I helped cool the 60860 this The BFG 9060 which was this awesome uh kavanau guy uh took the design and made the um makes the boards from the design that were that was provided everyone's all the credits are right here on the on the board but yeah you do need to supply your own 060 of course and i' got that fortunately yeah that can just lift straight up and out there you go it's a nice board beautiful board right it's pretty cool oh there it is aan O's signature 11 322 is when you put that together for me it's awesome yeah so the good news is the expansions cards in the back so these are through they don't they're not I don't think they're secured to the back of this if you had this this thing in here or this got the if you had the cereals little doers in then you couldn't just lift the motherboard out but as you can see I never put those back probably for this very reason hey it's editor Q here and I just wanted to let you know that for the rest of this video the audio is going to sound a little strange that's because my recording mic uh it's wireless and the battery died how many times have you heard that in YouTube videos yep finally happened to me battery died thankfully the iPhone just automatically took over recording audio even though the wireless mic was still plugged in so from now on yeah the audio is going to sound a little up and down and weird but it's still I think fairly intelligible so hopefully you can still enjoy my blathering all right back to the show commodor did not provide a through hole in this tray to get to the screw underneath for the motherboard so this whole mechanism does have to come out which means I mean if I had like a little fancy angle screwdriver I could probably get in there and do it means I have to pop the front of the 4,000 case off which I hate doing because the tabs are already getting worn on it pretty busted up barely on there as it is it's very very sad actually see Dr Chris just twerk on these and pop them off but I mean if you look closely on mine I'm these are working these are working this corner bottom one is missing its little footy though frustrating so yeah unfortunately this whole cage has to come out and there's the the front of the 4,000 it's naked naked front I wish I did have I have a CD round drive I can put in here and I just don't have a long enough cable that works with dual IDE devices still so that's why it's often just a big gaping hole now we are finally to board extract mode and yes the motherboard has all of its original screws because Dr Chris put this together and I did not take the motherboard out ever because I don't like like doing this in fact this might be my first 4,000 motherboard extract ever because I did the 3000 which was my first Amiga big box board extract ever was the my three my 3000 because I took out the completely destroyed 3000 original motherboard and replaced it with a rioma 3000 board and I have a whole playlist of videos in my Channel about that if you want to see that and then of course I've done the get 1 12200 multiple times I have the nice thing about the 1200 is so easy to just rip that board in and out of that thing especially if you don't put in all the little dinguses in the back ports it just makes life so much easier oh 4,000 Engineers I love them so not only do we not have a through hole in the floppy tray to get to the motherboard screw there's no way to get to the screw that's under here uh because this is in the way yeah for over function function over form what other what's the right word for that all right so there we have it I believe they should just come out with zero effort Tada we have extracted the omga 4000 board yay there you go I've got my Kickstart ROMs my 3.2 tws um I'll confirm with Chris that that's what's on the board he sent me I'm sure it is if not that's just a quick Swap and yeah as you can see original boards so none of these chips are socketed they're all surface mount and that includes the Buster so it does have a uh 11 there yeah she has 11 Buster already has this no battery damage whatsoever on this board super clean yeah it's just really bizarre the board is I mean it's darn near Flawless it's a little crunchy grungy monkey in the ports area but there was nothing obvious that would State why the video slot portion of this board does not work nothing that we could find really at least on an initial exam and he's going to have this now in hand and he can he can deep dive on it and check it out me package this up and get this sent off to him and then I will uh see what he says and then in the meantime yeah I'll have to go ahead and reassemble the 4,000 and put her all back together that'll be so exciting it's the exact reverse of this hopefully have a functioning video slot but yeah guess what I'm going to save that for another video why because I'm not going to make you sit through an entire time-lapse video of reassembling the 4,000 as a video that was this video that video is going to be hey I reassembled the 4,000 and it worked yay now let's check out the video toaster yeah see that's what I'm doing I'm trying to trying to plan things a little bit so I hope you enjoyed watching this tear down of Amiga 4000 to extract the motherboard we've had success and it's my first time doing a 4,000 this way to this level of Destruction actually thanks for watching I'm done with this video\n"