Cleaning & rebuilding the Atari Acid800XL. Extreme restoration X 1000 , but will it work ?

#restoration #repair #atari #8bit #retro So it's time to work on the mainboard of the Acid800XL. Opening the box Part 1: https://youtu.be/wdklXYdLepA Fixing the Keyboard Part 2: https://youtu.be/z6epNp1xKkI 00:00 intro 01:24 Quick recap from Part 1 with the initial cleaning 02:48 Using Bicarb of soda to clean the PCB 03:40 Results from Ultrasonic cleaning 06:00 starting to remove the corroded parts 10:00 removing the ram 13:10 last components are removed 13:45 Testing Ram 16:37 Testing the Atari Chips 23:48 Rebuilding the PCB 30:47 one last clean 32:32 Testing the Crystals and first power on 37:18 Powering on the system for reals 40:57 Talking about what is next 44:49 A nice surprise 50:00 FIN Sorry the audio is a bit rough in places, I had to remove a lot of background fan noise. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/leesmithsworkshop A big thanks to everyone who helped with this episode @ReEnthused John Blanchard for the spare Atari 800XL and 64XE It would have been so much harder