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Re: Towerizing an amiga 2000 motherboard?
« on: November 16, 2009, 03:10:09 AM »
I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but there is also something called a "tick" signal that the A2000 mobo needs.  I ran into this when I tried to do the same thing and hit the wall when I couldn't use the PeeSee tower power supply...
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Re: Towerizing an amiga 2000 motherboard?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2009, 04:06:02 AM »
Quote from: trilobyte;529777
This site:  http://amigamaniac.com/atx_to_amiga.html  says you can flip a jumper on the mobo to source the tick elsewhere...

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My attempt was back in 1998-ish and I remember reading that.  It DOES suppythe tick signal but with some kind of side effects.  Wish I could remember though what it was and where I read it...

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Couldn't find the orig. piece abo. odd Tick counts from J300, but here is a recent thread that brings it up...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38939

The first response from Cast. talks abo. the unstedy tick...
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