Amiga 4000T not booting

[matthey]

Try reseating the cards themselves, including the CPU card and 4000T I/O cards. If this doesn't work then take them all out and blow out with a can of air or similar and use alcohol on the contacts. Reassemble after drying.

[matthey]

I have a 4000T with P5 CS MKIII (very similar to CSPPC) and a 2MB E-flash.

I use the ESC key very early in a reboot and I can hold it to bring up the accelerator boot menu. If you can get the Amiga to pause and never reboot but can't see anything then push the space bar to temporarily toggle between a 15kHz and 31 kHz display.

I have been unable to get my E-flash to work. Elbox's documentation and software support of this product is bad. Early versions of their software crashed and later versions just failed. I do run a 68060@80MHz but my Zorro bus is still 50MHz. I edited my own 40.70 ROMs with Romulus and Remus replacing the 40.70 modules with the newer ones from 3.9 as well as bug fixed modules. I applied a few modules from BlizKick like Noclick which work and use Blizkick as the first command in my startup-sequence. I had to turn MAPROM off on the CS early boot menu and add NOROMUPDATES to setpatch but it works great. It's faster with less patching. I left the ide scsi.device out of my kickstart which speeds up the boot. With a CS UltraSCSI hard drive and 2 CD ROMs on the 4000T SCSI bus I get cold boots in the 15-25 second range and warm boots in about 1/2 that.

[matthey]

*yay* ;-)

I guess switching the boot menu to 15 kHz made it visible? I hope you saved the 15kHz mode bootmenu so you don't have to use the space bar every time.

I guess you're using the built in CSPPC CD driver. This is a very basic driver and doesn't support some things although it allows booting. Most people don't use the built in driver and use a mountlist in Devs:DOSDrivers using CacheCDFS which is included with 3.9. You may already have a CD0 entry in SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers you can drag over to Devs:DOSDrivers. You will need to change the tooltypes to...

DEVICE=cybppc.device
UNIT=your CD-ROM's scsi address
ACTIVATE=1

You wont be able to boot from CD but this usually isn't used on an Amiga.

[matthey]

I believe the tooltypes override the DOSDrivers entry (mountlist). In any case, it can't hurt to change the entry itself. You should turn the CD-ROM file system in the CSPPC boot menu off if you use the DOSDriver entry. CD0 must be in your Devs:DOSDrivers drawer for it to start at bootup. You can start it anytime, anywhere by double clicking CD0. The SCSI address has to be correct. If there is still a problem with no error messages then your CD-ROM drive probably doesn't like the 3.9 CD.