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I hope you've replaced/removed the battery on the motherboard! A500+ machines are notorious for being damaged by severe battery leakage, to the point where someone is now reproducing replica motherboards to replace damaged ones.
I've got a few A500s, all of them have varying degrees of corrosion around the trapdoor port from where expansions have had their batteries leak over the years. Fortunately nothing so bad to write any of them off, but the same can't be said about the expansion boards!
Even my A1200 has some very minor signs of corrosion on the edge connector from a leaky expansion. Luckily I caught that early, neutralized it and scraped off the damaged part of the conductors. The remaining parts are still thick enough that I hope an accelerator will still be able to make reliable contact. Yikes!
I've got a few A500s, all of them have varying degrees of corrosion around the trapdoor port from where expansions have had their batteries leak over the years. Fortunately nothing so bad to write any of them off, but the same can't be said about the expansion boards!
Even my A1200 has some very minor signs of corrosion on the edge connector from a leaky expansion. Luckily I caught that early, neutralized it and scraped off the damaged part of the conductors. The remaining parts are still thick enough that I hope an accelerator will still be able to make reliable contact. Yikes!
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