Blizzard PPC stability problems

[OldSkool]

Hi you all,

I'm a beginner on the Amiga front. There are some stability problems with my recently bought BPPC. I have the following setup:

OS 3.9 (boing bag 1 and 2 installed)
BPPC 040 (cooler and fan) doesn't get hot
PC power supply 300 watt
1 memory module of 128 mb
internal 2,5" harddrive

In the bios I played with the memory setting a bit and found that:

70 ns: very unstable
60 ns: improved stability
free config: best stability (but not stable enough)

The system still freezes randomly. Any ideas or advice is helpfull.

I already tried the following:

Additional cooling PPC (including fan): no effect
Diskdrive power direct from power supply: no effect

[OldSkool]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the tip. The board is overclocked (I checked the numbers on the board no scsi, 25 Mhz 040, 160 mhz ppc). It's overclocked to 33 mhz 040 and 200 mhz ppc.
I tried another memory module I had the same instability problems. The crashes are at random sometimes after boot sometimes after 15 minutes. My maximum is about 30 minutes stable.
It could be power because the overclocked CPU need more power. They don't get overheated I think (the PPC gets warm but not hot and the 040 has a big cooler and fan and stays cool).

[OldSkool]

I applied additional power via the floppepowerplug. Something magical happened. Yes yes yes it's stable!!!!!!!!!!!! Now running Doom (warpos) for more than a hour.

The extra power and BPPCfix program solved my problems.

Now the machine is waiting on the BVision card I bought via ebay.

Thanks Forum!!!

[OldSkool]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the tips. Strange that phase 5 never put a direct power connector on their boards.