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Offline AmiBoyTopic starter

Help! Accelerator problems
« on: April 10, 2012, 03:49:46 PM »
I am having REAL problems with my Apollo 060 66Mhz accelerator.

When its plugged into my system it will not boot.

Stripping the system down to the bare bones (or even leaving all PCI cards plugged, but no Hard drive or CDRom on the IDE-Fix board) the 1200 will boot to the insert disk screen.

However as soon as I plug my 060 in (with & without memory) my 1200 will not even get to the insert disk screen, even if I leave it running for a couple of minutes.

I dont know if the CPU or the Oscillator is to blame (or even both!) as I do not have spares to test with to hand.

Can anyone on here help me? Does Amigakit do accelerator test/repairs???

I want to get my 1200 running again :-(
Escom A1200, Power Tower, OS3.9 & BB2, HD-Floppy drive, Mediator PCI, Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, Soundblaster 4.1, TV Tuner Card, 10/100MBit Ethernet card, Apollo 68060 66MHz with 64MB, 9.5Gig HD and 52xCDRom

Also one spare unworking bare A1200
 

Offline AmiBoyTopic starter

Re: Help! Accelerator problems
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2012, 03:59:05 PM »
Wow, wish I had your skills Cosmos.

If it is the same problem, it doesnt look like a nice cheap repair job :-(

I also need the second SIMM socket on the reverse of the card changing from a verticle to angled socket as Ram chips are a little too close to the CPU for comfort.

If I can make space I would love to fit a heatsink (& possibly a fan - but someone else would have to do the work for me as I have no skills in this area at all).

Would you, or someone else you know be willing to take a look at the card for me and if it can be repair it (& change round the SIMM socket)???
Escom A1200, Power Tower, OS3.9 & BB2, HD-Floppy drive, Mediator PCI, Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, Soundblaster 4.1, TV Tuner Card, 10/100MBit Ethernet card, Apollo 68060 66MHz with 64MB, 9.5Gig HD and 52xCDRom

Also one spare unworking bare A1200
 

Offline AmiBoyTopic starter

Re: Help! Accelerator problems
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2012, 05:11:40 PM »
@Rob

Hi Rob, I have tried 'allowing' the card to 'lean' at different angels to see what would happen (and even ensured card was 'held' straight), but same story no booting.

I also tried it with & without the Mediators edge connector (i.e. A1200s slot) and no luck :-(

This is getting depressing.

(replying on both AWorld & A.org thread)
Escom A1200, Power Tower, OS3.9 & BB2, HD-Floppy drive, Mediator PCI, Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, Soundblaster 4.1, TV Tuner Card, 10/100MBit Ethernet card, Apollo 68060 66MHz with 64MB, 9.5Gig HD and 52xCDRom

Also one spare unworking bare A1200