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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Painkiller on January 16, 2009, 11:53:05 AM

Title: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: Painkiller on January 16, 2009, 11:53:05 AM

I'm trying to FORCE update an empty FLASH on a BPPC, but it refuces to FLASH it. The installer says That it finds a correct processor, but with unknow speed and then refuses to flash because of the unknown speed.

Anyways to get around this? Can I tell by hand that what speed it is?

Title: Re: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: keropi on January 16, 2009, 01:11:48 PM

I think there is not much you can do... how did you end up with an empty flash?

Title: Re: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: doctorq on January 16, 2009, 03:49:23 PM

IIRC you have to specify the speed of the PPC CPU.

If a 160 MHz CPU it's Blizz040PPCUpdate 160 FORCE or something like that. It's all in the docs.

Title: Re: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: Painkiller on January 16, 2009, 05:47:26 PM

Thank you very much I will try on Sunday and I will read the docs. There wasn't just anything mentioned about this in the install how to...

I take it that I have to write there what speed I'm running it and not what speed the processor actually is?

@keropi
I bought this card as broken. Noticed that the flash was missing so I bought a new chip for it and soldered it back. It seems to be that the card isn't totally broken as the installer is able to gather some information.

Title: Re: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: Framiga on January 16, 2009, 07:35:49 PM

no way ... thats an "update".

For a "full re-flashing", a custom programmer (with the whole flash data) is required.

Title: Re: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: Painkiller on January 16, 2009, 09:13:18 PM

Oh well I can do that as well. Just have to get a tsop adapter. Is there a way to extract the full data from a working card with an A1200? Or do I have to read the chip with my prommer?

Title: Re: Any BPPC FORCE Flashupdate wizard here?
Post by: da9000 on January 20, 2009, 01:29:15 AM

@Painkiller:

what programmer are you using to do that?

What *ROM chip is used? Did you buy it new?