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Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« on: June 12, 2012, 09:26:17 AM »
Have a very wavy picture and horizontal lines running up the screen. Occasionally a pink flash.

If I connect the Amiga 500 plus back up with the s-video it's fine.

I have removed the Indivision and checked all the pins, have checked the riser card.

Have pushed it in as far as I can get it to go and appears to have no gaps, the pins are all where they are supposed to be, have installed the ground cable.

Have tried without the ECS Denise. The Amiga 500 plus is a full ECS machine so can't see any issue there.

Have stripped it down to just the motherboard and the indivsion connected and still the same thing.

Installed the Indivision config tool as I have a funny jagged missing gap at the bottom which is apparently normal on some monitors.  Still same problem.

Have googled around and found one guy having the same issues and I got the impression he pushed it so hard the board bent to try and get it to work.

Not sure what else to try :-/ The most money I've spent on an Amiga LOL :-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2012, 11:51:13 AM »
Have raised a ticket with them, but probably be in bed asleep before they read it :-)

Oh and have tried another monitor same fault.
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2012, 09:04:40 PM »
Thanks k4lmp, will try again. Have adjusted the pins and seems to be a snug fit, not sure how much more force the board can take.

But will try again :-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2012, 12:17:01 AM »
A little better now but still looks bad, shimmering/wavy picture with the occasional flicker. Move the mouse it gets worse.

Have pushed, adjusted and pulled.

The most annoying little hardware board I've ever witnessed, nowhere near as good as my s-video adapter or even a scart cable.

Picture is shaking all over the place. Looks good through a camera though, damn camera :-)

I've walked away from it before it get's shoved back in it's box :-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2012, 01:59:59 AM »
Knowing my luck prolly is faulty, but I would assume Amigakit test them as they upgrade the firmware and stick their logo on it?

Anyway will give it another try later today.

Had the day off today to enjoy playing some games via VGA but it's not meant to be I guess.
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2012, 04:37:51 AM »
Have grounded it as per the manual picture, it's the only real place possible with the cable provided.

If I remove the CPU and turn on the machine the Indivision Boot picture is crisp and clear. Of course this is of little help ;-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2012, 05:44:08 AM »
Some photos of my faulty Indivision ECS :( More to come....
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2012, 05:55:59 AM »
One more :-) I need a new camera LOL
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2012, 06:00:04 AM »
Quote from: djos;696236
Have you tried putting your original 68000 back in to see if it is a compatibility issue with the 68010?



Yep, stripped right back to just a motherboard, 68000 and the indivision. So a little puzzled.
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2012, 09:47:56 AM »
Yep, very weird. Waiting for Amigakit to get back to me, I see my ticket is assigned so will see what the next step is.

Will let you know what happens :-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2012, 02:31:50 AM »
Well it's been awhile but I finally got my IndiECS back from Amigakit. Which is where the good news finishes :-)

I have a new A500 plus board (well you know what I mean), installed the Indi same issue only worse now.

Colours very bright and washed out

Now and then on boot a red screen and flashing led on the Amiga.

Indi tool has the buttons but doesn't show you the settings beside it. Click any of the buttons and the Amiga locks/freezes.

Horizontal lines now follow the mouse

Green flashing is a ghost image of what is on screen.

Connect up my Amiga maniac s-video and VGA convertor box works great.

My views on the Indi so far are not that great. Brings back the old term plug and pray.

So not far off holding a burning ceremony just need to borrow a handy cam for the moment.
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2012, 09:27:44 AM »
@ AmmoJammo - Sent it back and they said they knew what it was and applied a fix :-)

@ Crumb - Have tried a standard Amiga PSU and two ATX PSU's. A Pico and standard ATX.

Works fine if I'm using an s-video adapter, only get the problems when the Indi is being used.

Don't really want to go through sending it back again as last time it took two months :-/ Have updated them so will see what they come back with.
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2012, 12:01:11 PM »
Going to grab another ATX PSU from work and go from there :-)

2 ATX
1 PICO
1 A500 (heavy version) PSU

Tried so far, so whats one more? ;-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2012, 08:28:23 AM »
Another PSU 300W ATX, one board, one indivision, one monitor, nothing else. Same result.

I give up :-)
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Re: Indivision ECS - Pulling my hair out
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2012, 12:43:16 PM »
http://youtu.be/0m1cxu-C1gA?hd=1

A little hard to see the jelly (jello) wobbly screen and the entire screen flashing green really quickly.

Can see the lines and flicking and tearing :-)
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