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aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote: Get yourself down to a Maplin store - whilst Maplin's don't half sell some junk these days, they always seemed to have good deals on multimeters. The one on www.maplin.co.uk, code GW24B, is 30 pounds and does everything you could expect of it, plus a few 'features' like capacitance and frequency measurement. electrocuted - close! :-) There shouldn't be any mains voltage inside the Amiga - it's all low-voltage DC. No problem there (just don't use anything metallic whilst the machine's on obviously, in case you accidentally short something out!) You can touch the tops of chips to see if any of them are getting over-warm (that's all relative though as different bits will run hotter than others by design; if it's too hot to keep your finger on for any length of time then that's often a good sign that something's wrong!) Oh, have you checked the hard disk cable, connector on the A600 board, and the connector on the hard disk itself? Just a thought. Check for damage, bad connections etc. - I've know hard drives do strange things when the connection isn't quite behaving itself. Worth taking the main PCB out of the machine itself too, just to make sure that a particle of something metallic hasn't worked its way underneath and is shorting out something that it shouldn't be. Those sorts of 'mechanical' checks tend to be easy to do before reaching for any test equipment. cheers Jules -- A. Because it destroys the natural flow of conversation. Q. What's wrong with top posting ?