APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.

[stefcep2]

The silver rectangle thing is your oscillator/clock generator. I don't think your system will work well unless it is soldered in properly. Is it?

AFAIK Apollo didn't solder the crystals.  If the crystal is pushed all the way in the card will work, mine did for 10 years, till one day after moving my 1200, the crystal fell out ( no trapdoor cover, to cool the card).  If the crystal dislodges when powered up, it can harm the cpu.  It happened to my Apollo 1240.

[stefcep2]

I've removed the RAM and tried to boot, which gave me an all red screen when I turned on the Amiga.

I moved the jumper on the 030 board and I booted into an error screen that said device F1 was not responding, working propper, something to that effect. I'd have to reproduce the error again and write it down.

I tried it again and it booted fine. I then ran Amiga Explorer which again ran for a moment, but this time popped up a window saying:

Avail
Program failed (error #000000004)
Wait for disk activity to finish.

Suspend               Reboot.
---------
Needless to say, I put the RAM back in.

When I boot while holding both mouse buttons, the 030 is detected.

I moved the WAIT jumper on the 030 board and booted again, trying Amiga Explorer. It went further than ever, but again failed. When I tried to close Amiga Explorer on the Amiga side, I got no response, so I assume the program is crashing on the Amiga side, thus causing the Windows side to spit out errors.

I'm currently running OctaMED S.S. again and it just crashed to a RED press mouse screen. I didn't press anything and now it is at a black screen. THIS SUCKS!!!

Oh ya, and does anyone know why the Amiga didn't notice that I don't have a floppy drive installed until after I put this 030 in there? Every once in a while when I boot with the 030 in, it says that it can't find device DF0:

Strange things are a foot at Circle K.

I initially got red guru;s and then black screen too,

see here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37909&highlight=apollo+stefcep2

[stefcep2]

Hmm. Well mine still boots, it was just that one time when I removed the RAM without setting the jumper that I got a RED screen.

Out of curiostity, did you ever get your board repaired? If so, through whom? If anything I'd rather see this repaired than to send it back and call it an bad day on Ebay.

Yes, PG  Per Gunnar repaired it for me.  Actually he put an '060 in it, but it works only at 40 mhz.  Benchmarked on AIBB its 25 % faster than a 40 mhz 68040.  PG did a great job, his soldering was first class

[stefcep2]

I read about another guy having problems whith his Apollo 1240 and it was a problem whith the right libraries. He coudn't boot it and this was he discovered:
Quote:
"Hum,
i seem to remember that the 1240 came with a custom 040.library on floppy....(?)
 
"
 
Answer: "Thanks babe, that's exactly what it was! "
 
Perhaps you should look if you have the right library in your Apollo 1230-50, or at least try to reinstall it.

Never seen -030 specific libraries. 040/060 yes, 030 no