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Recognising ram on Blizzard PPC board
« on: June 20, 2005, 10:25:06 AM »
Hi,

I have a Blizzard PPC board with 68060, 603e CPU running at 240 MHz and integrated SCSI controller. The board works fine, except for one thing. No matter what kind of ram module that I have tried installing (50 ns, 60 ns and 70 ns) gets recognised. All I have is my 2 MB chip ram :-( Anyone experienced this, and managed to fix the problem afterwards?

I have had the board sent in for repair at Amiga Repair Centre, but he wasn't able to fix the problem, so unless any of you guys know to go from here, I can only use it for display :-)
 

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Re: Recognising ram on Blizzard PPC board
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2005, 11:50:21 AM »
@Karlos

Thanks for the tip, I would be just so lucky if it was as simple as that, but I doubt it.

The board does shows up as working in the expansion card list, and it can also boot to Workbench from my harddrive.

Now you specifically say 68040 throughout the text. You are aware I'm talking about sa 68060 board right? You wouldn't happen to know the filesize of the flashrom I need? Or the archive name would be fine, I can then extract it from the archives I have on my hdd.
 

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Re: Recognising ram on Blizzard PPC board
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2005, 12:09:30 PM »
Well, nothing has been disable by keypresses, I know that for sure. I guess I will just have to go through all my flash archives :-)
 

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Re: Recognising ram on Blizzard PPC board
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2005, 12:20:03 PM »
I was just going to ask the same thing :-) Looked through the updates available at ftp.meanmachine.ch and none match :-(
 

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Re: Recognising ram on Blizzard PPC board
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2005, 12:55:46 PM »
An update:

I just reflashed the card with the BPPC 060 flash from Flashupdates-090400.lha. Ram still isn't recognised :-(

As a side note, I would think the Jean-Jacques at Amiga Repair Centre would have tried this as well, so maybe it is a dead end. Most likely a hardware error which isn't repairable, at least he said that he couldn't fix it.
 

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Re: Recognising ram on Blizzard PPC board
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2005, 01:12:26 PM »
I have other BPPC boards with 060 and SCSI so I'm covered, but it wouldn't be a bad thing to have an extra fully working board.