Les Railton's (Phipscube) Super A1200 Part 3

What about that eject button? Did you just solder the two wires to the back or did you have to make some more special modifications to the drive? And could this drive do the trick? As you can see it has the eject button on front so I would not have to solder he wires =)...

I soldered two wires thus: -

Then routed the wire around to the side here: -

So it sits like this (I have since changed this to be hanging as I had to move the HDD a touch to stop it resting on the indivision, but you get the idea): -

And here is the button mount. I drilled a hole and stuck it down with hot glue: -

YES! BVision is repaired and in! Only done initial tests, but so far so good.... See my Repair thread for details on what i did: - http://amibay.com/showthread.php?t=12634 here's a few more pics...

The connector is replaced and all soldered up!.

Finished off with a nice bit of shiny laquer

Boots up first time and i'm straight into the Early Startup Screen

The Boot Screen looks weird though, is this normal through the BV?

There she is nestled in nicely

Another shot showing it go under the Clockport Expander. No heat sinks installed as yet, and it gets ruddy hot in minutes! Will be much better with heat sinks on and case on top with fans blowing

Couple more shots inside, s'cuse the mess!

I had to do a quick mod on the HDD power. It was dropping off like mad with the BV in, so snipped the power being fed from the IDE Fix Express and hard wired +5V from the PSU connector. No probs now You can see my temporary cludge for audio out here too. this will be a better board, more secure, with a mixer cct and possibly a couple of external ports for mic and line in.

I tried booting her up through Indivision, just to make sure there is no mess onscreen and that the power is good with BV in... it all seems ok. +5V is at 4.69V So I need to get CyberGrafx 4 on and get the latest driver for BV next! then we can see some REAL juicy display action Would like to know if the boot screen should be messed up like it is... anyone? Anyway, thanks for looking... more to come!