After pulling my towered A1200 out of my Mums loft I have been struggling to get it to work.
System Specs:
A1200 motherboard revision 1D.4 - original caps, dont believe timing fixes have been done.
3.1 Rom Chips & OS3.9 with BB2
Power Tower with original AT PSU
Apollo 060n @ 66MHz with 64MB ram (2x 32MB sticks)
Mediator v1 with upgraded MACH chips
Voodoo 3 3000
Soundcard
Network card
Buffered IDE interface with 52x CDRom & 10GB Hard drive plugged in
It started to go flaky a few years ago - with the Apollo 060 only seeing 1 of the ram sticks plugged into it. Couldnt figure out why and at the time (i tried changing the Ram sticks round and other Ram sticks of varying sizes - it wasnt the Ram itself).
I got frustrated in the end and I wasnt using the system at all at the time so just left it.
After moving house and recovering the system from my Mums where I had it stored while moving I recently started to try again with it.
If I strip my system down to just the motherboard & mediator to supply power, I do get to insert disk screen after 20-30 seconds (is this normal time?? just feels kinds long from what I remember)
This tells me the MB is OK.
If I plug the Apollo in tho, even after a few minutes waiting no insert disk screen comes up and after removing the Apollo card, I noticed that the 060 is very warm especially after only being turned on for a couple of minutes.
What could be the cause of the problems? Could it be the oscillator or voltage regulator?? Is my Apollo card broken :-( (I am hoping to heck it isnt & its a simple fix).
Any help greatly appreciated.