Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators

[wlemonds]

Hi there!  I still have not had a whole lot of time to play with the new 4060 board, but I did manage to get it operational with my current OS 3.9 load without needing to fully reload the OS.

The board seems stable and well constructed, but as per by last post, the jumpers were melted and shorting out, and also not set properly for some of the "reserved" functions.  It took me three hours to troubleshoot.  I removed the jumpers and salvaged the workable ones.  Most of the contacts did not need to be "closed", so I had some spares to play with.  Although I purchased 32MBs of memory from SoftHut, it arrived as 70ns speed. I ended up yanking the 64MBs / 60ns modules from the WarpEngine instead.  At first it would only recognize 32MBs, but it seems that ended up being an incorrect "reserved" jumper setting.  There are two more jumpers to select 4MB / 16MB module size, and single / dual sided.  I thought I killed it for a while as it would not boot at all, but that ended up being the SCSI active termination jumper.  I have no clue why that setting won't let it boot up properly.  Other than that, there is a jumper to select 60ns or 70ns memory speeds (seems to work at the 60ns setting), and an additional "synchronous" boost setting for dual memory modules, which I can't get to work with the four installed modules that are exactly the same.

At least you got yours working. I got one for the 4000D rev. B and can't get it to boot. The 4000 came with the 3640 which was working and I switched out to the 4060 and nothing. Won't boot, can't even get a 'Insert WB screen'. Put the 3640 back in and it works. Removed all cards, HD, floppy, CD, MB memory (MB has 16MB). Nothing. I bought 128 MB of ram which was installed on this card. I didn't change any jumpers before installing it the first time. After it wouldn't boot I tried different jumper settings with the same result.

Right now I have nothing installed except the 4060 with 128MB ram, 16 MB ram on the MB and it won't boot to 'Instert WB screen'.

Is there a jumper on the 4000 MB I need to set for this to work?

BTW, my crystal is soldered on.

[wlemonds]

JP3 - "Reserved" jumper - Make sure it's on 1-2 (default per manual), mine was 2-3

Which is pin 1, towards the scsi interface or towards the processor? The orientation of the arrows between JR3 and JP8 makes it confusing.

And the same for JP8, is pin 1 towards the bottom of the card or the top?

JR7 and JR8 were ON and I now have them off. The J100,104 are set to "EXT" pins 2-3. I've removed the memory off the MB. Still no change.

Joe says this was tested and worked, before he sent it to me.

[wlemonds]

I have yet to get this to work. I've been in email tag with Joe and GVP on what is wrong with this card.

The JP100 and JP104 jumpers on the MB needed to be in the 1+2 position, I'm told. Why, I have no idea. The 3640 required pins 2+3.

Since I wrongly assumed those pins were supposed to be 2+3 when I installed the card I started messing with the pins on the card. I've set them by the other guy's post and I've set them back to where they were when I got it.

I've tried running with or without MB memory. I've tried running 1 stick of 32 MB on the card, switching sticks to make sure there isn't a bad one in there.

I tried running without any cards except the 4060. And I've tried without HD, CDROM or floppy. I can't get a "Insert WB" screen or "Early Startup Menu" with the 2 button mouse press.

I've tried installing the 3640 (changing the MB pins), HD, and floppy. Booted to WB 3.9, installed the 4060 software drivers. Then, removed the 3640 and put the 4060 back (changing the MB pins) and tried to boot and it never checks for a boot device. My HD light does not show the system polling it. I get the dark grey screen and nothing else.

My only other recourse is seeing if it will work on my A3000.

[wlemonds]

I e-mailed software hut regarding the issues with A4000s and got the following reply.

"The units work with 99% of the A4000 motherboards, very early on Commodore shipped only a handful of motherboards with 2, 28mhz occilators rather than the standard 28 and 50mhz."

So off I go to check my motherboard has a 28 and 50mhz occilators.

I have a 28 and 50, so it's not that.

[wlemonds]

Did you get any further with discovering what the problem was?

There's something wrong with the board as it wouldn't work in my A3000 either, which has the INT mod. so they are sending me a replacement.

[wlemonds]

I'm still waiting on my replacement board.

[wlemonds]

Got my replacement board today and got it installed.

So far everything is working great!

[wlemonds]

Has anyone got their 4060 card running with any SCSI drives yet?

Yea, I hooked up an old Fujitsu 1GB SCSI drive to it and it works. It autoboots as well. It does give a longer delay in booting as the 4000 looks to the IDE first. If someone knows how to fix that let me know.