A4000 tower build from scratch

[Bazzaq]

Is it that they are all in bits and you are not sure how to connect them up??

Or are you just wondering which bits are best to use?

Its sounds like you have some nice kit, and would get some good info on here if you list all the bits. Maybe with photos of stuff you are not sure of.

Starting off with the minumum required bits.

Case
Motherboard desktop or T version
Zorro board of some sort if its a desktop mobo
Processor board, CStorm with cvppc graphics.
Suitable Powersupply
Drives / hd/floppy/cd/ ide/scsi
 
You could probably find a trade on here for a nice elbox tower for all your surplus parts..


"edit"
Ah, just noticed you are not sure what goes where..

ID all the bits via www.amiga-hardware.com or photo em all up and post links here.. im sure they will be id'd in minutes..

[Bazzaq]

Looks like some nice gear.. Shame about the 4000T that would have been the nicer option in my opinion.

I spy a Cyberstorm ppc card.. very dusty.. would be nice if that works.. Also an external scandoubler, that will be very handy.

Check the battery for leakage, it needs removing and replacing if possible..

locate:
CLK 90 Clock Source J100 1-2 Internal (020/030)
  2-3 External (040)
CPU Clock Source J104 1-2 Internal
  2-3 External

these need setting up depending upon cpu. Looks like you have more in the box..

install a cpu and connect floppy drive to motherboard..
That should be enough to test boot it.

The scandoubler will let you hook a pc monitor up for testing. Then you can use it for native resolution once you have a graphics card going.
 

[Bazzaq]

All looks promising.. Looks like your accelerator is 128mb, 16mb on board, and probs 6/8 on the scsi controller..

Which accelerator did you end up using??

Connect up harddisk, ide to the motherboard, or scsi to the scsi card.. if you used the cyberstormppc then scsi to that.. dependant on termination and cables you have.. easiest setup would be ide to the motherboard.

You will need set of workbench disks, including install disk. Boot the install disk and run hdtoolbox to partition the drive, the gvp hd can be used to format if you go scsi.

Once you format the hdisk, boot install and run the hard disk install, this will install workbench to the hd and make it bootable..

You will need to install the cyberstorm 060 libs onto the harddisk too. into the libs folder. If you cant find the disk then you can download the libs>  http://phase5.a1k.org/
Install pc0 device to be able to read pc floppy disks, doubler density only if you have not got the HD version of the 4000 floppy.

Once you have workbench running ok via the scandoubler then you can try and get the cvppc working http://phase5.a1k.org/index.php?id=3 for the drivers. cgx3. cgx4 would be better if you have it.

You will need a cd file system to get the cdrom going, depends on how it's connected, ide drive via the motherboard can be enabled using idefix97 demo on aminet,
scsi cdrom may be a little more fiddly, amicdfs or similar may be more suitbale.

This should sort of point you in the right direction.

Grab whichamiga to run and identify system specs.

[Bazzaq]

You now have the basics of a top spec miggy..

I assume the scsi board is a gvp of some sort, the gururom is the eprom installed on it.. gvp boards usually take 30 pin simms upto 8mb. I don't know if the scsi performance will be any quicker with ram installed, but the ram on the cyberstorm will be much quicker.

A lot of people suggest to run with just 2mb chipram in the motherboard and remove the fastram. I run with it installed works fine.

Plug the harddisk into a power cable and not into the ribbon, if it does not spin up then its broken.