A1200 Accelerator Woes

[Vanfanel]

I'm having all sorts of problems now, aren't I? But I digress. My A1200 and it's accelerator (DKB Cobra 030/33 w/68882 32MB) just don't seem to get along very well. Half the time I turn the computer on I just get a black screen, with the power led flashing (6 short 1 long). Usually, just reseating the RAM is good enough, until it happens again. Lately, the machines has started to reboot on it's own, and tonight, I get a yellow screen when the accelerator is installed. I pulled it out and reinstalled it (as I have done before when I had this problem), only to have it yellow screen on me after it finished booting and had Workbench visible. I'm inclined to think that it's time to take the accelerator out back and put it out of its misery, but logic forces me to admit that some may be wrong with the motherboard as well. Since I'm stuck in Florida, where we have no one who services these things (I know where a guy is that used to, but he doesn't anymore), anything I should check before I start looking into a new accelerator?

And just to keep me from opening another thread, feel free to make accelerator recommendations, too. I mainly game on this, but I wouldn't mind doing more with it in the future. I'd also like to be able to disable the accelerator on bootup, just in case I need too

As always, thanks for your assistance.

[Vanfanel]

Motormouth, it is an obvious test, but I don't have access to another 1200.
And to both, I've heard about the new ACA 1230's and they sound pretty sweet. I wonder if they can be disabled on boot, though. Or disabled in any way without removing them.

Also, I should note I'm using an A500 power supply at the moment. A bit more power than the anemic 22 watt thing they expected you to use, as I understand it.

[Vanfanel]

Some of the problems I've been having seem like they could be due to it overheating, but from a cold boot would suggest something more is wrong. In either case, I think it has to go. I know of the Blizzard cards, and they do seem very reliable, plus the SCSI addon is most useful. Finding one for a reasonable price however is tricky at best.

[Vanfanel]

NovaCoder: I can't deny you have a very valid point there. I was holding out for a Blizzard for the SCSI kit, but there are other ways for me to get a CD-ROM on this thing. As for any incompatibilities that might arise from not being able to disable it at all, well, I still have my 1k for that. Can't deny the appeal of "One Amiga to Rule Them All," but maybe that's just not possible.

[Vanfanel]

Cammy: I will give that a try. I had a theory that a loose connection could be the problem, but I never tested it so... forcefully. Bending the pins a little is simple enough. I'll probably end up replacing it anyway, but at least it won't be an urgent thing.

Crom00: UAE is a great program. I've been following it for years since I first found out about it. But if that satisfied my Amiga fix, I would have never bought the 1200 or took my 1k out of retirement.

[Vanfanel]

Interesting, Paul. I'll have to check that out.