Pegasos on the way - yay!

[DaveP]

Fuse?

Normally the PSU fan comes on unless there is:

1. a dead short
2. a blown fuse
3. you didn't switch on at the power

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@all

LOL! I can see the advertising campaign now:

"Pegasos, take valium before assembling. Genesi cannot be held responsible for any electric shocks or cardiac arrests that may result of the frustration from assembling this in kit form"

It can only get better.   :-?

I wonder how people are getting on with their CommodoreONE mobos ( if any have been sold )...

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@KennyR

I didn't mean to cause offence. Sorry if that sounded unfair.

Honestly!

It just seems absurd that whoever sold Wilse the board didn't send easy to understand step by step instructions printed out. What if it was your only system - and you were told that on the CD-Rom there was a PDF you could read ( but you don't have a system on which to read the PDF - catch 22! ).

Pegasos is still not out of Beta, nor is MorphOS despite what some people claim. Its not for the masses and the whole absurdity of how close yet how so far made me laugh out loud. I was getting mental images of Wilse being
electrocuted or getting so frustrated he popped a heart valve.

Now the freeview market has opened up in the UK there is some avenue for an easy to fit Pegasos based STB *this year* to be released. Its going to need to be a lot more developed to get that far.

It reminds me of a review I did of the Power Tower. Very near but VERY far from a finished consumer product.

I don't know if Wilse would have had the same experience with A1 or not - probably would but it bothers me that you say that the hardest part is installing MOS. Jeez. :-(

No review I read so far warned about that!

We are so near to a consumer system dammit!

EDIT: misread "is a sinch(sic)" but the autoboot is hard. Disregard the bit above!

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Tried it on my ATX PC and it does not light up unless the power goes through the mainboard properly.

( on at back, off at front ) - no light
( on at back, on at front ) - light
( off at back, off at front ) - guess  :-P
( off at back, on at front ) - oh please!

[DaveP]

Vorsprung Dork Technik  :-?

[DaveP]

Sweet. I hope you add all what has been discussed in this thread into an FAQ or into something that gets shipped with later Pegasos motherboards ( on paper! ).

[DaveP]

Its the debugging thing I think is important. It is too easy to lose self confidence when setting up hardware when it doesn't come on.

Thought process is:
1. #### #### ####!
2. Did I hit it with static electricity - I forgot to touch the radiator pipe before opening oh no that will invalidate my warranty.
3. Right, dissemble everything and start it without anything in.
4. #### #### ####!
5. Oh no, maybe I wasn't supposed to start it without anything in, maybe Ive ####ed it up by doing that!
6. Manual. Wheres the ####ing manual.
7. Ive got no bloody manual!
8. Ah schematic. What the hell does all this mean? Locking nut A and Flange B! WTF a flange?
9. Internet, Ill ask someone on the internet.
10. Oh no! They don't know what it is either.

Versus

"IF your Pegasos does not come on, don't panic, switch off and run a terminal program on another machine, plug in the provided serial cable between your debug machine and your Pegasos and switch back on again. It will give you an X-digit code. Here is a print out of what these mean"