Repair & Schematics
Amiga (Various)

DiagROM (Amiga 500)

2min

If you swap the Kickstart ROM for a DiagROM chip you can run the diagnostics programs.

Insert the diagnostics ROM into the BIOS ROM slot.

When first turned on you should have a dark grey, then flashing green, then horizontal multicolored lines, followed by a brief light green then white screen before the final diagnostics screen appears.

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Minimum Boot (Amiga 500)

In order for the DiagROM to be able to control the screen, it needs to have the following chips working and traces good:

  • 68k
  • Agnus (to see video out, optionally connect to UART output)
  • Gary
  • Data path logic ICs
  • Good clocks

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