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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: DGB on January 05, 2003, 04:57:34 AM

Title: WHAT GVP BOARD IS THIS???
Post by: DGB on January 05, 2003, 04:57:34 AM

I have a GVP board that was with a bunch of Amiga stuff I bought from a friend that has since died.  At the time I bought the stuff I didn't pay much attention to what was in the stuff I bought just thinking that it was spare parts.  I know the board is GVP and I know it is an accellerator.  Beyond that I am not sure about it.  I don't know the clock speed.  I know it has a Motorola 68030RC25B processor and another Motorola chip, 68882RC25A.  This ia a double ckt board.  The board on the opposite side of the processor has four memory modules that look like the ones on my GVP 040 combo.  I am guessing that they are 4MB @ and add up to a total of 16MB.  There are 8 slots total and the modules are in the bottom four slots, (the bottom being the side that plugs into the motherboard).  The board with the processor on it is the one that plugs into the computer.  there is a paper sticker on the board with the memory that has "68030 FASTRAM" and a serial number on it.  On the processor side there is another sticker with "GVP 68030 ACCELLERATOR" and a serial number on it.

I can see that this is an accellerator and memory expansion board but beyond that I know nothing about it and have no docs.  There is a 40 pin flat ribbon cable connector on the processor side.  I would like to know what that  connector is for.  Without docs or software I have no idea how to set this board up or what to do with the jumpers.

Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: WHAT GVP BOARD IS THIS???
Post by: Rigger on January 05, 2003, 05:46:43 AM

Is there an FCC ID on the board? I have never heard of a GVP card with simm slots on both side of the board.

Title: Re: WHAT GVP BOARD IS THIS???
Post by: Desmon on January 05, 2003, 07:17:49 AM

Sounds to me like you've got a GVP '030 Impact with the extra RAM board already installed. Check out the accelerators section of http://www.amiga-hardware.com
and see if you can find both pieces.

Title: Re: WHAT GVP BOARD IS THIS???
Post by: voxel on January 05, 2003, 09:51:28 AM

Hi :^)

You've got an Amiga 2000 GVP A3001, that was the fastest
A2000 accelerator back in the 1989 year.

It was 25 or 28 MHz, with a 8 Mb fast ram expansion (not 16)
and used 1 Mb GVP 30 (or 32) pins simms.

The 40 pins connector is for the IDE interface (slowwwww)
that can be used with 512 Mb Hard Disks max.

For that time that was not so bad, but extremely expensive,
I remember having paid about to 2300$ for it fully loaded and
950$ more for a 80 Mb Quantum Hard Disk! And I took TWO of each, OUCH!

Amigalement,

Jean-François Bachelet.