RetroManTavern: From 500 to Plus

As you probably saw in the previous post I got an Amiga 500 that I retrobrighted.

That Amiga 500 had problems with apparently random guru meditations...

So as usual I cleaned the board removed every socketed chip and reseated, but that was a "no go" still working just "sometimes". After a long discussion with many amiga experts we comed to the conclusion that the problem was the Fat Agnus and not the memory as I tought as Analyzer+ and Amiga Test Kit succesfully completed every mem test even prolunged ones...

So I ordered the Fat Agnus.

Being an 8372a F.A. and not the usual 8371 I did the1MB Chip Mod as seen in a previous post.

BTW, back on topic, replacing the Agnus helped and the Amiga seemed to be working well, but after some testing it started again to Guru...

I had no clue about what to do... But... I had the idea of testing the computer with a Gotek drive and to my surprise that worked great, so I tried with the floppy drive from my A1200 and boom, working!

So I ordered a new floppy drive! (Still waiting for it!)

BUT

While working on this Amiga I found a perfectly working Amiga 500+ motherboard! And as you may know these are really hard to find because the battery installed usually starts leaking on the board destroying it.

So I did the big step and bought this board along side a 1MB exp. to get full 2MB of CHIPRAM: