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APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« on: May 11, 2010, 03:37:26 AM »
I just purchased this item:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290431755934&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

When I installed it, I noticed the Silver Rectangle in the lower left hand corner of the picture (I presume this is the crystal?) was hanging on at an angle. I pressed it down, put the board into place on the 1200, and fired up my system.

Everything booted up fine, the memory read correctly as did the CPU and what have you. I then booted up OctaMED S.S. and began playing my latest track while I took a shower.

When I came back, I was sitting at a RED SCREEN OF DEATH, which told me to press my RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. Which I did, but nothing happened, my system was locked up.

I then powered down the system and booted it back up.

At this point I had to goto work, so naturally, like any sane person, I ran Amiga Explorer on the Amiga and my PC, and began transferring over ADOOM and the DOOM2 iwad file so I could see how well it ran when I got back home.

Well as fate would have it, I came home to the YELLOW SCREEN OF DEATH, telling me to click my RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON, which again did not work.

I powered down the system, tried to boot again, but only got a HARD DRIVE error message of some sort. I noticed the 030 was pretty hot, so I turned the system off for 10 minutes, let the 030 cool, then booted again.

I then tried to run Amiga explorer, but now it keeps giving me messages saying that it can't communicate with the com port, blah blah blah. Yet all my settings are unchanged from when I was using it all before.

I then rebooted the PC, double checked my settings on both the PC and the Amiga, pulled the serial cable off both systems then re-attached it. AMiga Explorer will go for about a minute, then all of a sudden it looses the serial port all over again and my transfer fails.

On the Amiga side it gives me the error window that says:
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Skip

Program Failed (Error: #0000000B4)
Wait for disk activity to finish.

Suspend              Reboot.

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If I do a Warm Boot, I get a RED SCREEN OF DEATH. When I click the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON, it reboots to a gray screen and I then have to power down for a few seconds in order to boot back up.

For the note I am currently running Work Bench 3.0 and am waiting on my Kickstart 3.1 ROMS to arrive in the mail so I can upgrade to Work Bench 3.1 as well.

I am also using a IDE to CF adapter with a Sandisc Ultra CF card and a 450Watt PC PSU.

Everything was working like normal until I installed the 030.
« Last Edit: May 11, 2010, 04:07:36 AM by XDelusion »
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 04:40:14 AM »
@Gulliver: I have removed the card so I can transfer my DOOM files over. When that finishes, I will try your advice.

@Fanscale: It looks soldered in fine from the bottom, but the block part its self seems to be able to slip up the poles that it sits upon, the part that is soldered to the board. I pressed it down and it "seems" secure in its place now.

I hope that description makes sense.
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2010, 05:01:36 AM »
@stefcep2 What were the symptoms when you had trouble with your 040? I.E. how did your Amiga begin to act?
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 06:46:56 AM »
I've removed the RAM and tried to boot, which gave me an all red screen when I turned on the Amiga.

I moved the jumper on the 030 board and I booted into an error screen that said device F1 was not responding, working propper, something to that effect. I'd have to reproduce the error again and write it down.

I tried it again and it booted fine. I then ran Amiga Explorer which again ran for a moment, but this time popped up a window saying:

Avail
Program failed (error #000000004)
Wait for disk activity to finish.

Suspend               Reboot.
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Needless to say, I put the RAM back in.

When I boot while holding both mouse buttons, the 030 is detected.

I moved the WAIT jumper on the 030 board and booted again, trying Amiga Explorer. It went further than ever, but again failed. When I tried to close Amiga Explorer on the Amiga side, I got no response, so I assume the program is crashing on the Amiga side, thus causing the Windows side to spit out errors.

I'm currently running OctaMED S.S. again and it just crashed to a RED press mouse screen. I didn't press anything and now it is at a black screen. THIS SUCKS!!!

Oh ya, and does anyone know why the Amiga didn't notice that I don't have a floppy drive installed until after I put this 030 in there? Every once in a while when I boot with the 030 in, it says that it can't find device DF0:

Strange things are a foot at Circle K.
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 06:58:46 AM »
Hmm. Well mine still boots, it was just that one time when I removed the RAM without setting the jumper that I got a RED screen.

Out of curiostity, did you ever get your board repaired? If so, through whom? If anything I'd rather see this repaired than to send it back and call it an bad day on Ebay.
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 07:07:01 AM »
I took the RAM out again and tried Amiga Explorer once more.

I was able to transfer an entire ADF file for once, but after that it crashed and reset itself.

I then loaded up OctaMED again only to receive this message:

OcraMED
Program Failed (error #000000004).
Wait for disk activity to finish.
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Mind you, the system is locked, meaning I can't move my mouse, but the musick is still playing fine, though OctaMED is standing perfectly still as it does so.

So it ain't just Amiga Explorer that is crash happy when it comes to this board, and I'd presume it's not the RAM either.

Now how hot should my CPU and FPU be?
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2010, 07:28:55 AM »
@Fanscale: Yes, as mentioned above I am using a 450 Watt PSU, and I have successfully booted my system with the 030 and RAM removed, still got the same exact results.

@stefcep2: I got your PM and thankx! I wonder if this board can be upgraded. Assuming it can be fixed...

...assuming it's broken. :)
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2010, 07:36:01 AM »
I need more power than a 450Watt ATX PSU?!?!
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Re: APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2010, 04:49:32 AM »
@Retrofan: Thankx, I don't own a microscope, but I'll look into this.

Now as for over heating, presuming the issue is not dust, fiber, hair or what have you...

...would it be normal for a card to over heat and flake out within 2 minutes time? The CPU and FPU seem hot, but not hot enough to cook an egg on.

Sadly, I've not heard back from the seller about this matter yet. :/
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