I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or software...

[icbrkr]

So, I'll pretend it's hardware right now  I got an A1200 some months back from a friend of mine (for free! ), it has a '030 upgrade in the trapdoor with 8MB of RAM on it.  I put in a new drive, installed Workbench 3.0 (I think), got it all up and going.  I installed Miami to connect to the net via dialup, installed MagicWB, and MUI.  I use Degrader, and Tude to boot into older games...

Everything was going fine and then...

The weirdest thing happens.  When I initially bootup, it only boots up with a 16 color palette.  If I go into the screen settings, I only have the option of switching to 16 colors max on my AGA machine.

Now it gets weirder...

If I go into the boot options (ie, hold both mouse buttons down), and then immediately exit without doing ANYTHING, it comes up in 256 colors.  If I warm boot or cold boot after that it drops back to 16 until I do the above process again.  Is it possible that there is some software doing this or am I missing something obvious?!

Any enlightenment would be great...

Brian

[icbrkr]

uixote on 2003/6/22 20:50:16

 Hello, Brian, and welcome to Amiga.org!

Hey thanks

I checked the startup-sequence, and also to see if there was anything hiding in WBStartup, but I don't see anything.  I booted off a WB disk, and was able to get a 256 color palette.

But, there is still something odd...

It's been awhile since I used an Amiga (I had a 500/600/CDTV in the early 90s)... and when it's booting, the screen is "blank" (and black)  until the Workbench comes up ready to go... shouldn't I see some sort of outline of a WB window or something while it boots?

If so, I'll take the other suggestion and start reseating the accelerator and Kickstart chips.

Thanks for the suggestions..!

Brian

[icbrkr]

by BouncingAyatollah on 2003/6/23 11:50:04

Like KennyR says AGA is only enabled by Setpatch. To run some AGA demos from "no startup" you have to run Setpatch first for the same reason.

Maybe something you installed has overwritten with a Setpatch from its archive, you need OS3.0+ Setpatch for AGA. Compare the versions of Setpatch on your HD with the one on the boot floppy that enables AGA OK, if the one on the floppy is later copy it to your HD.

This turned out to be absolutely correct!  I took a look at the SETPATCH date, and it was dated yesterday and was only 2.6K.  I copied the one from my WB 3.0 disk (7.6K) and voila!  Working machine again.  I guess this would explain why it worked when I went into the Boot Options screen.. at that point, "Best display" was selected so that's what it was booting in.

Thanks a lot guys!

Brian