CD32 power pack

[leirbag28]

lempkee wrote: but i do run an cd32 with sx-1 and 8mb fast , 20gb hardrive and a FMV without problems..


If you have a FMV card, then you only have 4megs not 8.  :-)

I am however wondering how did you get the 20gig formatted and paritioned as I am currently trying to format a 40gig I just bought and having major problems. OS3.5 or 3.9 won' t boot off of it, telling me something about a resource.library. OS3.1 boots fine you then I cant get any software on the work partition without it telling me there is a checksum error.

[leirbag28]

lempkee:

oops forgot to mention I am running a CD32/SX-1 with FMV and 8meg (4when FMV installed) also tried the 40gig  on my CD32/SX32 128mb 68030 50mhz. still the same problems. I tried installi stuff from a CD but the CD refuses o boot, even one of those CU AMIGA cd's

[leirbag28]

StevenJGore:

How do you Dual Boot? DId you make 2 boot partitions? like HD0 and DH0?  I did this but OS3.5 or 3.9 wont boot.

[leirbag28]

My original CD32 power supply can handle My CD32 wih SX32 pro 50Mhz with 50Mhz FPU 128Mb ram and 2.1gb HD, with DSS 8+,SuperGenSX, Floppy drive and SCALA Echo all connected at once, not to mention................ internal fan, without a single problem...............I have had multiple SX32's and an SX-1............the problem isnt the power supply.......it is the backplate of the SX32 and how certain ones seem to suck more power or disriute power differently.........I tried 3 or 4 of them and this is the case..........on the ones that wouldnt work..I tried more power.....and then they worked.

my SX-1 with internal fan and FMV card and withall attachments works fine also,............interestingly adding an SX-1 to a CD32 enhances the brightness and clarity of the image, even through the S-Video and composite outputs, I would have thought it would degrade it because of more power being sucked out, but such is not the case.

[leirbag28]

lempkee wrote:  i use a fmv card yes but i have a switch for the fastmem and as soon as i use the fmv it disconnect the 8mb jumper and swith to 4mb! , very easy..


Get outta here!  really?  it does this automatically? or do you have to hit a switch? wont this damage one of your boards?

 I have software that lets me run Video CD's from workbench and SCALA in full screen from my SX-1, so If i had this little hack of yours,are ou saing that I will have 8megs and then when I tell my software to run a VideoCD that all of the sudden the 8megs switches to 4 megs and then runs the VCD wihout me touching any hardware? and then switches back once the VCD stops playing?


if so.......LET ME HAVE THAT HACK!

[leirbag28]

@Stedy

"Have you had problems with the SX32 shuttle board too?"

No I have had no problems with this board,but did with my First SX32pro 50Mhz.............the problem was that the heat the 030 and FPU were generating was causing the SX32 circuit board to become bent out of shape going downwards till it stopped functioning. I still have that board. But the original CD32 power supply, powered it completely fine even when completely loaded and then some. As I said earlier, if your CD32 power cant handle the SX32, its because of the way your particular backplate of your SX32 handles the power, and I dont think there is anything you can do about it but add a bigger power supply. Also I soldered a fan directly to the CD32 power connector rather than take it from the Disk drive port as i usually did......even though my SX32 works fine like that, I wanted to have a floppy always connected.

 My hopes one day is to connect the FMV card at the same time with he SX32 both internally.