Cyberstorm PPC

[57goldtop]

Hi.

I have an A3000D with a Cyberstorm PPC @ 200Mhz installed that I want to test fully before I sell.

I'm unfamiliar with the card and wondering what series of tests I can perform to verify functionality. I don't have an ultra wide SCSI drive to test, so I guess I cannot verify that its working unless someone can make a suggestion.

I'm sure the 060 works, otherwise the machine would never come up!. Just not sure about the PPC, I have run ppctest and all there are no errors returned but I don't know how thorough that is ?..  , can someone recommend any other PPC apps to run to verify full function of the PPC chip ?

Cheers.
57GT

[57goldtop]

Thanks for replying. I don't have Amiga OS4 or WarpOS. Just a an OS 3.1 installation. The fan on the PPC definitely needs changing so I shouldn't be running it for too long without replacing the fan first.

Do you mean the ppctest.dms test disk, I found this here

http://mitglied.lycos.de/thomasrapp/ppctest.dms

There are two options, the second does not work because I do not have WarpOS but if I run the first option there aren't any errors reported.

[57goldtop]

Well I inserted the PowerUp CD, there are some sample apps there that I ran while running the PPCTool.

For example if I run the memtest application testing Memcopy, Memread and Memwrite methods they all work on the PPC chip and the process also shows up in PPCTool when I click update while the test is being performed.


So I suppose it must be working...

However, I'd like to perform a more CPU intensive test as you suggested but I'll wait until I get the new fan!, don't want to take any chances as things are already quite tight and components easily get hot inside the A3000.

[57goldtop]

You shouldn't run your CSPPC with a broken fan at all.
Huge amounts of heat will be "dumped" via the balls into the PCB material, heating up the FR4. This can damage the structure of the PCB in the extreme, and can lead to breaking wires.

It's just making a funny noise, it's weak( wearing out ).  I won't be using the machine until I get the new fan from amikit..

Cheers and thanks.

[57goldtop]

I live near Sydney.

Cheers