• Re: My A2K died :\

    From Rene Laederach@2:301/133 to DENNIS SMITH on Sun Sep 14 18:32:06 2003
    DENNIS SMITH wrote to ALL:

    Checked again without Merlin gfx card. No good. Removed all the cards!
    No good -- I even got winking power light. The PSU is OK. Anyone got
    some experiece in any of this?

    IIRC a purple screen is some broken chip RAM, but it would be interesting to know how many times the power led blinks so we can tell what might be broken as
    well.

    What I would try is to remove and reinsert all socketed chips to see if this rubs away the layer of oxidation that accumulated over the years.

    So, I using my old WB2.1 A2K. It has problems, but it bootsup! :)
    I'm writing this with CynusED v4.2 and Q-Blue v2.4 =:o Eeks, I fell
    into time warp.

    The good old CED! I should give it a try again, but I've become too spoiled
    by
    Emacs on a Unix boxen. But then, I preferred GoldED anyway. However, I could not think about using a diskette-only Amiga system...

    I'm thinking of letting SoftHut do the repairs. Should I fix or not
    will depend on estimate. Any info will helpful...

    If it involves soldering the motherboard, it's a love question, because the cost will be high. What I suggest is to for the the AmigaOne. As I'm
    currently
    planning to do. Else, go Linux and get UAE.




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  • From DENNIS SMITH@1:120/228 to RENE LAEDERACH on Tue Sep 16 22:28:00 2003
    Hi Rene,

    At 6:30 PM on 14 Sep 03, Rene Laederach said to me:

    DENNIS SMITH wrote to ALL:

    Checked again without Merlin gfx card. No good. Removed all the cards!
    No good -- I even got winking power light. The PSU is OK. Anyone got
    some experiece in any of this?

    IIRC a purple screen is some broken chip RAM, but it would be
    interesting to know how many times the power led blinks so we can tell
    what might be broken as well.

    The power light is steady all the time now.

    What I would try is to remove and reinsert all socketed chips to see if this rubs away the layer of oxidation that accumulated over the years.

    I did that all that. It's a clean machine. I even swapped tha CIA around.
    No changes. Checked the voltage on pin#31 - cpu and KSrom; good 4.5 to 5
    volts.

    So, I using my old WB2.1 A2K. It has problems, but it bootsup! :)
    I'm writing this with CynusED v4.2 and Q-Blue v2.4 =:o Eeks, I fell
    into time warp.

    The good old CED! I should give it a try again, but I've become too
    spoiled by

    I like GoldED v5. over CED!

    Emacs on a Unix boxen. But then, I preferred GoldED anyway. However, I could not think about using a diskette-only Amiga system...

    This Z28 '040 has .5Gb and 50Mb Quantum HDs :)

    I'm thinking of letting SoftHut do the repairs. Should I fix or not
    will depend on estimate. Any info will helpful...

    If it involves soldering the motherboard, it's a love question, because
    the cost will be high. What I suggest is to for the the AmigaOne. As I'm currently planning to do. Else, go Linux and get UAE.

    Well, I'm more interested in the A1 than the old A2Ks. Could I live
    without a classical Amiga? Hmmm...that's hard. Amiga is a class of it's
    own. I will scrap one of them to save the other.:-|

    LinuxUAE, right now is crap. =:o It doesn't have a JIT engine which makes
    it lumber along bad at about the speed of a stock A500. I have noticed
    though this in a KDE desktop. If I go with Gnome, it's a lot snappier,
    like an '020 at 14MHz roughly. Do you think its prgs in the background?

    Any particular linux in mind? BTW, Yellow Dog v.3 is shaping up! It would
    be nice if the installer for A1 was ready around OS4 is released.

    :Dennis

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  • From Rene Laederach@2:301/133 to DENNIS SMITH on Thu Sep 18 21:49:30 2003
    DENNIS SMITH wrote to RENE LAEDERACH:
    The power light is steady all the time now.

    Dim or fully lit? If it's dimmed down, calls are open to what could have
    died.

    Well, I'm more interested in the A1 than the old A2Ks. Could I live without a classical Amiga? Hmmm...that's hard. Amiga is a class of it's own. I will scrap one of them to save the other.:-|

    I emulate it now, and with a AMD 3200, it doesn't work too badly if you have GB RAM.

    though this in a KDE desktop. If I go with Gnome, it's a lot snappier,
    like an '020 at 14MHz roughly. Do you think its prgs in the background?

    Couldn't tell it from afar. If I can make UAE compile on the p670 in my office,
    I'll let it run against some real CPU power.

    Any particular linux in mind? BTW, Yellow Dog v.3 is shaping up! It would be nice if the installer for A1 was ready around OS4 is released.

    Yellow Dog is nice, but I can't make it run with it's fan on a new Powerbook yet, and I don't have a brand-new desktop Mac to test with. Else....



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  • From DENNIS SMITH@1:120/228 to RENE LAEDERACH on Mon Sep 22 13:17:00 2003
    Hi Rene,
    At 9:47 PM on 18 Sep 03, Rene Laederach said to Dennis Smith:

    The power light is steady all the time now.

    Dim or fully lit? If it's dimmed down, calls are open to what could have died.

    Fully lit when you turn it on. The reset is not activated. I've looked at
    the "Amiga Intern" for ROM info and reset. If I reading this right, a rom
    image is placed in chip ram. The CPU jumps to memory #04 which is the
    reset vector. CIA-A setups this remapping with a OVL --memory overlay.
    The reset vector points to Kickstart program in KSrom. Does that sound
    about right? I think CTRL AMIGA AMIGA triggers the CIA-A low=0 to do a
    reset also. I have no response to this either? Arrrgh.

    I swapped the CIAs around no change. I replaced the KSrom. If Fat Agnus
    was damaged, would no chip ram be causing this? Just nothing goes on.:/
    :Dennis

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  • From Rene Laederach@2:301/133 to DENNIS SMITH on Fri Sep 26 20:25:10 2003
    DENNIS SMITH wrote to RENE LAEDERACH:
    I swapped the CIAs around no change. I replaced the KSrom. If Fat Agnus
    was damaged, would no chip ram be causing this? Just nothing goes on.:/

    If Fat Agnus is dead, then of course all bets are off to what could have died aside from it. Maybe swap your Agnus to see what happens. Then Denise and Gary,
    and lastly good ole Buster.

    Else, your machine is probably not easily salvagable.



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