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Offline Alkemyst

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Re: Apollo 1260/66 problems (1240/40 also...)
« on: April 11, 2003, 01:33:40 PM »
My Apollo 12060/66 MC68060RC50A with 64MB ram, scsi wich i clocked to 80Mhz started to have mem problem after about 5years.

I found that it would only works if mem simms were swaped around it would work even tho they were the same make.

Then  that stoped & i had to mix the makes of simms,that worked for a while.

I bought a Mediator & voodoo3 but found when i used the voodoo3 driver in MMU mode the gfx would corrupt, but everything else that used the MMU worked just fine.

When useing the voodoo3 with vblank interrupt the amiga sortof lockup after a few clickings on progs or draws.
I could not move the mouse pointer or use keyboard,music & movies that was running would still play.

Then the mem went totally only 32megs showing of the 64 that i had pluged in.
Swaped the simms then for some strange reason it showed that i had 128MB's wish is not possible.

Had to see if i could get the 1260 fixed.
I went back to Analogic & they said its nuked.
I said do you have anymore 1260 they said yes one left but it was only a 50Mhz version :-(

I said swap my MC68060RC50A from the old to the new to see if it was just the board that had nuked but not the cpu & lucky for me the cpu was fine :-).

It seems the old board was get worse over time as now all the problems i had with the mediator  the voodoo3 has gone.

The MC68060RC50A is near impossible to get hold of now & i have seen many 060 cards sold as 66 wich dont have the MC68060RC50A id on the chip or show up as Rev 5 in some software that can show the revision number.

If its not MC68060RC50A or shows up as Rev 5 its not a true 66. & you can forget about running at at anything past 66Mhz.

This MC68060RC50A as been running now at 80Mhz for 7-8 years now.
PowerTower A1200,060/80Mhz,Heatsink&Fan,66MBRam,PowerFlyerGold,50xCDRomdrive,250Zip,2.1GB&34GB HD,internal Scandoubler & FF,19\\"Monitor,Mediator,Voodoo3-3000,PaceSolo 56k ,PortJnr2,ZEKeys-XS,SMON ,Os3.9
 

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Re: Apollo 1260/66 problems (1240/40 also...)
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2003, 01:55:25 PM »
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by elk on 2003/4/11 13:43:03

Mine is a 100% rev 5.... it has a big radiator attached to itself but the cpu60 command says it's rev 5... the board originnaly runs at 66Mhz and i didn't overclock it.. though i would if it worked ;)


Its very likely that its just the board that has gone & the cpu is just fine.

You maybe able to  the 060 cpu & power convertor swaped over to the 040 board & junmpers reset.
PowerTower A1200,060/80Mhz,Heatsink&Fan,66MBRam,PowerFlyerGold,50xCDRomdrive,250Zip,2.1GB&34GB HD,internal Scandoubler & FF,19\\"Monitor,Mediator,Voodoo3-3000,PaceSolo 56k ,PortJnr2,ZEKeys-XS,SMON ,Os3.9