Argh.. Major 3000 upgrade, now rebooting on its own..

[98PaceCar]

I spent the evening tearing down my 3000 desktop and doing a major upgrade to it. Brought it up to 16mb static zip ram, latest dmac, latest buster, latest ramsey, latest scsi, kickstart 3.1, os 3.9 on a fresh partition, picasso II, and cybergraphx 4.1. Everything seems to be running ok, but if I leave the system idle for more than a few minutes, the screen goes to a low res black screen with a blank title bar. It sits there for a minute or so and then reboots. Not getting a guru when this happens, but I was getting a few random gurus while I was playing with the screen modes. Is there something obvious I should look for before I start backing out what I did?

TIA,
98PaceCar

[98PaceCar]

Yea, I probably should have staged my changes. But I got caught up in swapping stuff out and you know how it goes!

I'll have to check to make sure everything is seated, but I'm kinda leaning towards it being a software problem. I didn't get to use the system much, but it seemed like it would only reboot if it was sitting idle. Kind of a screen saver type of thing!

I did remember one thing I probably messed up.. I installed the original Picasso driver before I installed the Cybergraphx. I tried to remove the Picasso like the Cybergraphx requires, but I may have missed something (very likely). Maybe I'll just re-install 3.9 and Cybergraphx and see what that gets me. At least it's not like windows where it takes a couple hours to install!

Thx,
98PaceCar

[98PaceCar]

That's kinda what I'm thinking, but I don't remember how to set one up! That's another of tonight's projects!

[98PaceCar]

@Oldmobile_Mike,

That's right! It was a commodity! Ok, this stuff is coming back to me slowly.. I'll give that a shot when I get home tonight.. As far as I know, all of my partitions are valid (hope)! If the other one is bad my system backup is probably toast!

98PaceCar.. That's chevy's idea of a full size hot wheels car! The purple and yellow 98 vette from the Indy 500! I've had one since before the race in 98. One of my other toys!!

Thx!

[98PaceCar]

@Oldsmobile_Mike,

Though I do have to admit, as much as I like my vette, I have a major soft spot for the old 442 and the Hurst series cars.. Those just ooze class and style!!

98PaceCar

[98PaceCar]

@stew, @Oldsmobile_mike,

I agree completely! That is a phenominal piece of history to own! I'm glad you haven't given up on her and parted her out or anything. At the rate we are going, we could put together quite the collection of rare cars just between the 3 of us!

And not to hijack the thread, but...   ;-)

I think I've found my culprit. When I installed the Picasso, it was on a clean 3.9 install. I used the disks that came with the Picasso followed by Cybergraphx 4. The install for Cybergraphx says to completely uninstall the Picasso software first. I missed a part. A little commodity called StyxBlank that the Picasso installed. It was set to trigger after 100 seconds of inactivity. I took it out, rebooted, and it's been fine for about 10 minutes now.

I also ran through about 4 hours of burn in loops with the Commodore 3000 Burn In disk with no problems. So, hopefully I've found my gremlin and am ready to tackle the next upgrade... My Apollo 3060!

Wish me luck!

Thanks to everybody for their help. I'm really glad that there are still friendly Amiga users out there that are willing to help out a relative newbie!

98PaceCar

[98PaceCar]

@Stew,

Any thread can be hijacked to talk old cars!! I was just giving you guys a hard time!! :-D

WOW! You've got quite the collection from the sounds of it! I guess it always does work out that the car you want to restore the most is the last one to get done, but at least you've got some great ones to work on till then!

I don't have any classics right now, just my 98 Pace Vette and an 01 Dakota R/T. But I'm working on making the R/T a classic styled mopar. Already went with a replica shaker hood in flat black (the truck is silver). I'm considering a tail stripe next, but haven't decided yet..

Anyway, good luck with your projects! If you ever make it to Dallas and want to talk cars over a drink, let me know!

98PaceCar

BTW, I agree that the 3000 decked out is the ultimate Amga. I'm still in awe at how good it looks and runs with 3.9 and the Picasso. Just need an 060 and I think I'll be set!

[98PaceCar]

@iamaboringperson,

Keep an eye open, there's some great deals out there on 3000's. I got my first one for $20 from Goodwill. After some cleaning and reseating ram, it works perfectly.

My second one came from Ebay. Advertised as dead, but I got it working already. It's kinda hacked up, but it came with a complete set of upgraded chips, ks 3.1, a little over 32 mb ram of zip ram chips, some other spare chips, hd floppy drive, standard external floppy (1010), os 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, Cybergraphx 4, a bunch of other software (Final Writer 97, Final Calc, Fusion 3.1, Turbo Print 5, 6, and 7, some games, and the usual pd stuff), a Picasso II 2 mb, and an Apollo 4060. Got all that for a hair over $250 shipped. Just the upgraded chips are worth almost that. So far, I can't get the Apollo to work, but even without that I think I got a great deal! Combine the 2 systems and I'm ready to rock!!

98PaceCar

[98PaceCar]

@Acill,

:-o

WOW!! That's an awesome system!! Maybe one of these days I'll have mine built up to something close!!

98PaceCar

[98PaceCar]

@destro,

Thanks for the advice, but it turned out to be a software issue. When I installed the original software for the Picasso II, I didn't realize that it put out a screen blanker that Cybergraphx didn't like. When the screen blanker turned on, the machine would hang for a bit, then reboot. Removed that and she's been running fine ever since!

98PaceCar