Cannot access control menu in CSPPC

[57goldtop]

The title pretty much explains it, Neither pressing ESC or S brings up any menu at all. I only received this yesterday and I can't help thinking that previous owner may have tried to flash the card but screwed it instead, I'm not exactly very pleased.

I did the _INT2 mod, checked my wiring with a multimeter, changed the jumpers according to the manual instructions that came with the card but the SCSI on the CSPPC is basically dead & I'm currently using the onboard SCSI in the A3000. Unitcontrol is able to see the drive but whenever I click on any of the buttons, the program just freezes and does nothing.

Is there anybody out there who repairs these ?

Cheers.

[57goldtop]

No, The control menu is not loaded at all,  the machine just boots up WB 3.1 from the onboard SCSI in the A3000 even with the ESC key down.

[57goldtop]

I tried that too, I'll keep trying but I don't really like my chances.

Just wondering, did any button configurations change at any point ? My card has a DCE serial number.

[57goldtop]

Check the version of CybPPC.device at the CLI (this relates to the version of the flashROM).
The earlier versions had no GUI boot menu.

I'm currently at work so I cannot verify it right now but I think the version number returned was 44.24.

I'll verify this tonight.

If you want the GUI boot menu, just reflash with a later version.

The PowerUp website has a Flash update, unfortunately the "HOW_TO.." documentation only describes how to do the update via the boot menu by pressing 's' and I cannot access this either.

2) Hold key "s" while booting and press both mouse buttons
   to enter the AmigaOS bootmenu.
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In addition, the .LHA files provided on the PowerUp site will not uncompress using LHA on my Amiga ( downloaded from Aminet ), I tried using fixlha but that doesn't seem to be the  problem. I can unpack other LHA files I download from the internet with no problems at all, perhaps the compression method for these files may be different, I don't really know. WinRar has no problems but I cannot just simply copy the files across to my Amiga , it doesn't handle PC long filenames.

Please detail your scsi chain, including termination.

I'll provide a photo if that makes it easy later on today. I just wanted to keep things relatively simple and removed all other SCSI devices and SCSI cables, the cable is the original yellow SCSI cable that came with the unit. Only 1 drive is connected.

Regards.

[57goldtop]

That's reassuring to hear, the card is probably OK then.
I'll give it another shot tonight and I'll report my findings.

Thanks to everyone for your replies and help.

[57goldtop]

Matthey, I don't know if the method in those instructions will work because we cannot get into the bootmenu.

I found some info here

It gives you some good instructions on how to do the update without using the bootmenu. To summarise you disable your hd in the early bootup menu, boot from floppy where u copied the flash files and enter PPCUpdate from the CLI prompt.

[57goldtop]

Thanks Matt, I should have read the doc's more carefully.

[57goldtop]

Great, I can't wait until I get home to give it another try myself.

[57goldtop]

I did the update tonight and now I can use the bootmenu.

After going through the manual I figured that the SCSI cable is not terminated, that explains why I was not and still am not able to do anything with the drive yet. Will get a couple of scsi terminators and it should work fine.. I believe I need  two on each end, it's just the one drive.

[57goldtop]

Yeah I thought so too. I had a similar problem until last night with the onboard A3000D controller and couldn't get the external SCSI CDROM to work until I connected the original SCSI cable that had a terminator built into the cable.

I only received the card last weekend including 2 X A3000, Picasso II,  Tocatta,CSPPC, A3640 & other cool stuff. Initially I spent hours trying to get one of the A3000s to start that had the CSPPC installed, turns out the 3.1 kick ROMS were in the wrong sockets( U181 in U180 socket, U180 in U181 socket ) and some pins were jammed, wrong motherboard jumpers & a busted DMAC.  At that point I gave up ( what else could be wrong with it ) and began testing all the hardware in my good A3000. It has been quite a frustrating week testing out all this stuff trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.

Now I'm quite happy with getting the CDROM to work, that means I'll be able to get onto the OS 3.9 install.