A2000 Boot-up issues

[pneron]

My A2000 occasionally needs a 1-2 soft-boots after a hard-boot. I have an external SCSI tower where all my drives reside. At first,  I thought my PicassoII card was the issue but fixed that known blown resistor near one of the Sub HD 15 jacks. However, sometimes, after a hard-boot, I still need to do a few soft-boot. I always boot the tower first, wait a few seconds than boot my machine.

Question # 1: Could the Relay switch on my Picasso II card be creating intermittent boot-up issues? A visual inspection shows some historical heating issues from the blown resistor near one of the Sub HD 15 jacks.


Question # 2: Or could the SCSI drives be the issue? They are new drives and the SCSI cable is of the right length and also new.

[pneron]

The jumper settings SCSCI IDs should be ok, unless you are referencing to something else?
The SCSI chain (which only includes the tower) has a termination on the tower side as well

Thanks

[pneron]

I will have to pull the card out and check that...dumb question but how can I see the screen if I don't have the card?

[pneron]

ahhh, yes that make's sense, I can use that as pre-boot viewer for troubleshooting , good idea, let me  see if I can get something hooked up this weekend...appreciate the emails responses

[pneron]

OK Rob, I was able to run a Video composite signal to my TV and saw the WB come-up and realized the error that I had made in startup sequence. I fixed that and the machine ran fine for a few sessions. However, at one point it crashed again and I was unable to recover from any hard of soft boots. However, this time I noticed 2 things: The Video screen had a live feed signal (blank screen) and I did not hear my Picasso card "click" over this time. I wonder if I may have bad relay switch, bad capacitors or perhaps a problem with the card? I tried to reset the card a few times but nothing.
I will try tomorrow morning to see if it works.

[pneron]

Thanks Rob.

I have monitor hooked up on the Amiga video bus side via 'RCA' jack. I was able to see the WB screen a few times during boot-up and was able to get back to Picasso on my WB screen...then the system died after a crash. Now I see the monitor flicker a few times during cold boot (Amiga side), but stays blank. I don't hear the Picasso Relay switch over anymore as well.  I was going to pull out the card, clean it, maybe even change the Relay since I don't hear it clicking over anymore.

What a headache, just when I thought it was working

This is my old DAW (my main DAW is on my Mac)

OK, just a new update:

I pulled out my Inet225 card after cleaning and reseating every card and the system booted fine....I am still not convince its the Inet225 card but I will leave that out for now to see if this makes a difference. I am going to boot the system to see if it stays stable for a while.

BTW: I have been getting this message dont know how to fix it...I think a while back I must of installed the wrong version of Picasso. This message appears when my system gets to the WB

"Error opening PicassoIV.resource"


Another update this morning:
The machine booted up fine and I heard the PicassoII Relay switch over. Not sure what's going  on but I still think's its a Relay issue on my Picasso Card

[pneron]

No...I accidentally installed that driver one time but did reinstall Picasso II

In my Devs/Monitors> I have PicassoII   and PicassoII.info

[pneron]

Thanks for this tip

[pneron]

BTW: Got some feedback for a tech center...they suggested
"recommend getting an ATX adapter from Amigakit and a PSU that will fit."
I will try this and let you know how I make out.

As per Zipper's suggestion, I will also check the Picasso setting as well later this week

Thanks everyone

[pneron]

Well after a few weeks of replacing both my ATX P/S on my SCSI Tower and A2000, that has seem to have fixed the "stability boot issues", so thanks for the help

[pneron]

Basic question Zipper but how do I this?

"<set interactive on> and you can boot line by line via pressing <return> and see which line is triggering the popup'

[pneron]

ok will try to make this change this weekend...thanks for the newbie tip