OS3.9 Help Request

[foleyjo]

Hey all

I just did a fresh install of OS3.9 because my hardrive was getting cluttered with junk and i didn't know what needed and what was useless.

I then installed Boing Bag 1 2 3 and 4.

Next I installed Amiga sys 4 and it's update.

Which brings me to 2 questions

1 - I forgot to back up my startup-sequence before installing Amiga Sys 4. When I installed BB3 it advised that I add 2 lines to replace the existing setpatch line. These 2 lines have now gone. Do I need them and does anyone know what they were?
Something about loading modules and skipping modules

2 - Something in the install has stopped my Workbench prefs working correctly. I did have some drives hidden and the volume bar on windows also disabled. Even though in the Workbench prefs I still have this setup, it is not happening in workbench itself. Does anyone have an idea of what could be causing this?

Please not I have not added any other software and not made any other changes to the startup or user startup (I tell a lie I disabled the birdie prefs thing that was added with amigasys because it caused things that I didn't like)

I am thinking of getting rid of Amiga Sys and adding the features that I like manually. It's only the boot sound and image and the tinymeter menu system that I like to be honest.

[foleyjo]

Thanks fitzsteve
That makes sence actually.
Guess I'll have to start things again.

I was switching between using a PC with WINUAE and a real amiga for installation because I can't get my CD drive working on the amiga to install OS3.9 and I havent got any workbench adfs just the real 3.0 discs. So things did get messy and confusing.

I suppose I'll be able to download the adfs from somewhere

Havent tried ClassicWB os3.9. Will have to give it a try.

[foleyjo]

Well I finally got round to doing this and now I'm up and running again.

I've also got Frodo (v2 I think it is) working at 100% speed with only a frameskip of 2 . So I thought I would share my setup so others might benefit.

Amiga 1200 Viper060 with 64mb ram

First installed Amiga sys with WB3.1
Then upgraded to OS3.9
Added boing bags 1 2 3 and 4
Added the following from aminet (all after setpatch in startup-sequence)
speedychip
Newwpa8
Blazewcp


Still haven't managed to get my CD drive working. I'm starting to think it might be a hardware issue with either the squirrel or PCMCIA slot.

[foleyjo]

CC0 is listed in the early startup.

I have had the drive work fine in the past so I know it works with the accelerator.

I have a cd with a backup of my old workbench configuration somewhere so I'll see if I can restore it using that.

If not I'm going with hardware fault.

[foleyjo]

Well it looks like I have found the cause of the problem

After reverting to my old files for the squirrel and cd filesystems I was still no further foward.

Then I unplugged the squirrel and a little golden pin fell onto the floor.

So a broken PCMCIA slot appears to be the culprit.
Now somewhere I have some A1200 motherboards so it looks like some a1200 rebuilding is going to take place.

Does anybody know which revision motherboards caused the problems with Accelerators and PCMCIA slots?