Hi,
I now have my nice shiny A1200 and today picked up my Phase5 Blizzard 1230IV card. It has the SCSI interface and 2 x 16MB SIMMS installed.
The card was installed in another A1200 and was working fine. When I put it into my other machine and powered up, I got a black screen with small flickering blue lines (for a few seconds) then a software failure error.
Then, with horror, I noticed that the edge of the motherboard shielding was shorting out all of the pins on one side of the SCSI controller chip!
I powered off immediately, had a good cry for a few minutes, then removed the card. I fixed the shielding and cursed its name to the heavens. Then put the card back in.
It booted okay, but only one of the SIMMS was recognised. I jiggled the SCSI card and tried again and it showed the full 32MB of RAM this time.
All seems well, but sometimes (if I move the A1200 around) only one of the SIMMS is recognised.
Is this flaky connectivity common with these cards?
Also, would is my disastrous first attempt at using the card (and shorting the pins on the SCSI controller IC) likely to have stuffed my SCSI card? I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, so I'm hoping I haven't fried anything...
I've almost stopped blubbing now!
Cheers,
Mike.
