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A3000 + CS mk2 060
« on: August 15, 2006, 01:50:07 PM »
Have found some conflicting advice on the fora, and nothing definitive through a hefty googling.

Could anyone please tell me the jumper settings for the a3000 motherboard in combo with a CS mk2

Which clock jumpers to set?
Are they set to int or ext?

I currently have the onboard 030, so presumably some jumpers need to be changed.

I have soldered on the INT 2 modification, and replaced the battery with a nice mobile phone NiMH 3.6V jobbie (as a temporary fix until I think of how I want to do it permanently).

Thanks all



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Re: A3000 + CS mk2 060
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2006, 10:40:27 PM »
Bog, then I have a slight problem as it's not working.

I'll dig out my a4k motherboard and try out the CSmk2 on that - I know it was working last month or so, but I moved it 60 miles since then (and I might have looked at it funny).

Does it work with the chipram installed on the motherboard?  
Does it require 3.1 roms?  ATM I have only 2.04 roms installed (iirc).

Forgot to sacrifice a goat over it aswell...

EDIT - almost forgot, thanks for the advice and replies folks.
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Re: A3000 + CS mk2 060
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2006, 07:13:35 PM »
Thanks for all the advice folks, at the moment it looks as if my cyberstorm died at some point.

I've replaced the oscillator with a known working one, and examined over the entire surface with a strong magnifying glass.  No damage I didn't know about before, and no little bits of wire/solder/fluff between the legs of any chips/ics.

I've tried reworking every chip, transceiver, capacitor, resistor, resistor pack and transistor on the surface (excluding the big Xilinx one, because the legs are way too close together for me to rework :-P), and the connector slot, and scsi slot solder connections, but no effect.  Haven't done the simm-slot connectors yet.

I've tried it with ram, without ram, with 060, with 040 (changed resistors and voltage, added and removed LT1085 voltage regulator respectively) - no effect.  Have confirmed the 040 and 060 work on different boards.

Have treble checked the jumper settings on the a4000 just to be sure (and have tried on both INT and EXT clock settings).  The cpu gets warm (no more than expected) as do the mach chips, and the big square blocky ones.

The zorro scandoubler outputs a signal, but the screen just stays black - no yellow, green or red screen.  Cannot access the early-boot menu.  Am in the process of building a A2000-A4000 keyboard adapter, so cannot yet advise whether caps-lock light is working.  Don't have an LED handy to check the behaviour of the power light either, bah!

Same behaviour on the a3000.  Haven't got a cpu-board for the a4000 to double check the mobo with at the moment, but will pick one up next weekend.

Any suggestions?
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