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Title: Green screen of death
Post by: doyle86 on April 21, 2007, 12:09:56 AM

Hi every one,
   I have pulled my A4000D out of the garage after 5 years of collecting dust.  When I firsst booted it up I got a flashing green screen.  I looked on this forum and found the green screen indicates a chip ram problem.  I wiggled the simms and got it to boot.  I reinstalled WB3.1 and  it worked fine.  I left it on while I looked for a cdrom driver and when I came back the computer had froze.  I turned the power off, waited, then turned it back on and I was back to the green screen.  I have removed the MB, cleaned every thing I could, paying close attention to the simm area.  I even took the opportunity to have new capacitors put on the 3640 card.  Still have the green screen.  I've tried moving simms around without luck.  I only have the one 2mb simm for the chip ram slot.  The other simms are 4mb.  Any ideas?  I have a revision B motherboad.

 Thanks in advance for any help.

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: keropi on April 21, 2007, 12:23:38 AM

seems to me u have a dead 2MB simm...
get a simm of 4mb or better yet 8MB , that has chips on both sides... and use it as chipram, only 2MB will be active and u won't have any probs...

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: doyle86 on April 21, 2007, 12:35:34 AM

Does it have to be double sided? Is that why the other simms used for fast ram won't work?

Thank you.

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: Amigaz on April 21, 2007, 08:08:24 AM

Quote

doyle86 wrote:
Does it have to be double sided? Is that why the other simms used for fast ram won't work?

Thank you.

Older 2mb simms can be single sided but newer bigger single simms will only be recognized as 1mb

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: rkauer on April 21, 2007, 08:13:08 AM

Just try it.

You don't loss anything do'in it!

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: keropi on April 21, 2007, 10:30:51 AM

yes, it has to be double sided....

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: doyle86 on April 21, 2007, 09:15:08 PM

Thank you.  I seem to only have single sided simms laying around.  I will get hold of the right simm and give it a try.

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: doyle86 on April 23, 2007, 10:01:41 PM

One last question,
    Can I use a EDO simm for chip ram?  I've found info that says the A4000 does not support EDO.  I'm wondering if that means the MoBo just doesn't use the EDO capability.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: keropi on April 23, 2007, 10:34:48 PM

yes you can, the EDO features just stay sleeping...
(at least EDO can be used as fastram no prob, so I bet chipras will be the same!)

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: doyle86 on May 03, 2007, 04:39:53 AM

Hi folks,
     I got a hold of an 8mb double sided simm and tried to use it.  I got the same result.....green screen.  I have the right 2mb simm coming from amigakit.  I'll try that then failing that I would like some more advice. I've read something about a bad power supply being the problem or maybe even the Agnus chip.  I'll keep you posted.

Thanks

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: motorollin on May 03, 2007, 07:23:48 AM

Maybe the battery has leaked and damaged some of the traces coming from the SIMM slot?

--
moto

Title: Re: Green screen of death
Post by: doyle86 on May 03, 2007, 06:34:11 PM

I took a good hard look with a magnifying glass and the traces look ok.  I'm going to take an ohme meter and check for continuity in the traces.  Also,  I guess it's the Alice chip that handles the chip ram.  I'll keep poking around and let you know what I find.

Title: Re: Green screen of death-----update
Post by: doyle86 on May 03, 2007, 09:46:39 PM

I found a chip at U706 that looks like the insides are coming out.  There is this gray stuff all over the pins.  This is on my A4000.  Any clue as to what the chip there does?