Recently acquired a Blizzard Mk4 Accelerator for my A1200. Prior to the upgrade my stock system (& DKB1202 Memory Expansion) was rock solid. Now I experience total system lock ups (no error just unresponsive), reboots, or the red error screen.
Tried a few things, with no luck...
- Replaced A1200 power supply with bigger A500 power supply.
- Cleaned RAM contacts on accelerator board.
- Tried accelerator with and without RAM installed.
- Currently leaving trap door removed for better cooling.
- Disabled ROM to RAM cache.
- Reduced RAM speed.
- Have NOT tried pulling the board, cleaning contacts, and reattaching yet. (I hate dealing with this slot.)
I'm leaning toward a heat related issue. It appears to be after the system has been running for a while maybe 15-30 minutes. And it doesn't even need to be doing much just sitting with WB up.
I haven't installed any software related to the Blizzard card. As I understand it, nothing is required unless I wanted to use BlizKick but that's not necessary.
I've read all kinds of suggestions from installing fans to re-soldering all the capacitors on the motherboard. Neither of those options are very appetizing...
Any help would be greatly appreciated..