PPC equipped miggies

[x56h34]

Framiga,

One last try about the 604e (this just crossed my mind).
Turn on your Amiga and quickly try to run a PPC program and see if it works. Make sure that the accelerator itself hasn't been used for a while and is completely cool.

It could be that your PPC chip gets overheated pretty fast and needs some extra good cooling. This is of course a long-shot guess, but it's worth a try. I've seen PPC cards do this (e.g. the provided heatsink and fan are simply not enough, as there are revisions of 603e and 604e chips that just get way too hot after minutes of usage, or less).

[x56h34]

SysSpeed can test the speed of you PPC chip. You can try and run that test and see on which aspect it will fail, and that could potentially give away what part of the 604e is troublesome.

There's not much you can do if it is indeed broken. :-( Either send it to Amiga.fr, or DCE, and add another card to Dellert's ever growing collection of PPC cards. ;-)

[x56h34]

@Framiga:

Have you tried using the card in a different Amiga? Perhaps you messed something up in your SYS: partition and now the card is acting up.

Try this for a quick test.

Get a WB3.1 boot floppy and clear out all unnecessary things from it so that you could have space to put the following stuff on it.
Install 68040.library (dummy) and 68060.library to LIBS:
Install the WarpUP libraries to LIBS:
Get UNLZX (WarpUP version) from Aminet and include it on the floppy.
Put a small LZX archive somewhere on the floppy as well.
Try to unarchive the LZX archive with UNLZX and see if it works.
If it does, your PPC cpu is fine.

This is a useful way of testing your PPC cpu, as the system is very simple (e.g just the WB3.1 boot disk), and could maybe indicate that your OS3.9 setup or whatever you originally use with CSPPC is actually bad.

[x56h34]

It's not really noticeable in every day usage. I guess a good test would be to play the same game (e.g. PayBack PPC or Quake II PPC, etc.) and see the performance difference. Perhaps when OS4 comes out we'll see the actual difference. :-)