AmigaOS 4.1 Upg 3 hanging on first boots...?

[blakespot]

I just installed AmigaOS 4.1 Upgrade 3 on my Sam 440EP Flex. It had Upgrade 2 on it before. No issues there. Installed Upgrade 3 -- no errors reported. I then go to reboot and when the new title logo comes up, it just sits there. The logo is pretty dim also. It sits there for 20 mins before I've reset.

Any ideas? I just have one of the approved Radeon cards in there, as well as a USB keyboard and an ethernet cable.

Help...




blakespot

[blakespot]

I wiped and did a clean install of the OS 4.1 Upd 1 install CD, then installed Upd 2 and hard-rebooted then installed Upd 3. It still freezes on the dimly-lit AmigaOS 4.1 logo boing ball.

What is up here? This is a SAM 440ep Flex with the Radeon 9650 (or whatever the recommended card was) and 512MB of RAM -- no other funk cards in there. Just a keyboard and mouse on USB.

Now, I did not install that SAM firmware update that landed a year or two ago that would upgrade the bus / memory speed of the machine at the sacrifice of CPU speed. That was the proposition, as I recall it. Is that update required here?

Very frustrated. Thanks.




bp

[blakespot]

Ok. Still no luck. So...

a) If you haven`t, download and update last UBoot 1.3.1d

Installed. It helped not.

b) Try disconnecting USB devices to boot and then connecting them if it (hopefully) boots

No dice, there, either.

If you have a backup of your previous Update 2 installation, I would suggest copying your backup version of Devs/Monitors/Radeon file over to your new Update 3 Devs/Monitors drawer.

The two files are the same size and same creation date of 20-Sep-09. Same file, so...

Reinstall the works from scratch, don't install any extras, just install OS4 then patch it up.

No extras installed by any step outside if just choosing the main Install option...

Any other ideas?  Thanks...




bp