Recently I've been trying to get my Video Toaster working. I acquired it a while back, and finally decided to start the process of getting it working. I thought I almost had...
...but it seems, now that I've got it isntalled, and the Toaster 4.2 software installed, when I start things up, one two things happens:
- The Video goes crazy for a moment, Black screen, with various color jitters, I get get the NewTek Toaster Logo, and then it drops back to a very out of sync Workbench with a dialog reading "Video Toaster Not Responding."
- The Video simply goes black, and doesn't recover.
To repair either of these I need to power cycle.
I did a bunch of research, and followed through the information I found here, http://www.rabayjr.com/Amiga/Flyer_Faq/toaster/tnr.html but to no avail.
When passing a signal into Input #1, I do get a picture out of both the Monitor and Program outputs. And that is clear, except for the moments when the Amiga's Video out seems to be switching modes. Also, as the NewTek logo appears and the Amiga Output, I get a a ghostly logo on the monitor, which drifts off the screen in a few seconds.
This is the only Toaster I've ever owned, and the first I've ever tried to use it,so it is quite likely I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what that is at this point, so I'm turning to the experts here.
FWIW, the Machines configuration is:
- A2000, Rev 6.2MB
- Indivision ECS
- GVP HC+8 Fully Populated.
- ASDG Dual Serial Board
- GVP Combo 030 @ 50Mhz, 4Mb on board, 4Mb SIMM (8Mb Total)
- SCSI PCD-50D with 4Gb CF
- HP CD-Writer
Important Note: When I tested the voltage across chassis to ERR1 on the Video Toaster, I got -3.41 VDC, regardless of the setting of the variable cap CF. It did tweak the video, but had no overall change in card behavior.
@fordp
First think about if you want a amiga or toaster machine...
If you want a toaster, remember Newtek setup the 2000 toaster for the specs of a 2000.
Remove the Indivision ECS
remove the GVP HC+8 Fully Populated.
remove the ASDG Dual Serial Board for now (you can use this later)
the toaster takes over the timing of the machine, so it's fighting the sync of the vga
the 2000 only uses up to eight megs of mem in auto config and two chip, so the extra gvp is just using power.
not an expert, just a user
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