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No Display on my A3000
« on: May 16, 2008, 01:38:02 AM »
Hi All

I am firing up my A3000 for the first time. Battery has been replaced. It's one from Amercia (I'm in Australia).
Bought a step down transformer for it 250W.
It also has a GVP Graphics card on it.

I turn on the power and the scsi hard drives startup but i get no display at all.
I have tried my 1084, philiips 107E (plugged into the A3000 or GVP board).
I get no picture at all not even the coloured ones to say something's up.
I have tried seating and reseating the daughter board several times but no good.
I have an Amercian 125W PSU and I'm using a 250W stepdown transformer will that have any affect? did i get the wrong size tranformer?
I have tried the roms that came with it and also KS3.1 but nothing changes.
Please help.
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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2008, 03:46:54 AM »
Already tried no floppy, no HDD and no card.  :(
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2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 08:00:50 AM »
where is the pal/ntsc jumper please?
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2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 10:42:58 AM »
We use Pal i'll have to wait till i get to work tomorrow to test it out.
I hope it's just a simple jumper problem...

And yes i have some of my miggy's at work (lol they don't know that i work on them there).

OH. Is there a guide to learn how to use a multimeter?
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2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2008, 03:28:39 AM »
Changing the jumpers from NTSC to PAL made no differnce. still no display.
Anyone have any ideas?
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2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2008, 05:35:59 AM »
OK Thank you heaps Countzero, It is now booting to a light grey screen which means CIA probs, I have a spare A3000 boards (rev7 mines is a rev 9) which ownt powerup at all should i just swap the CIA's? Also where are the CIA's on the MB?

At least i have a screen now. Also i get the same result with the GVP IV 24.
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2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2008, 05:29:41 AM »
I fixed the Display problems it was all down to jumpers.....
But the MB doesnt read any floppy drive so i have clean Paula's Legs as there is some white stuff on it, if that doesnt work then i'll swap out Paula or CIA Chip...

Sorry Kristian95 but i want to keep the other for spare parts for my work one... :)
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A Chameleon and 1541 II ultimate II
2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: No Display on my A3000
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2008, 01:16:44 PM »
The Zip's seem to be fine, would that affect the floppy drive working, because all else is fine except floppy disk drives don't work, but if I connect them to my A4000 they work fine
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A Chameleon and 1541 II ultimate II
2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 
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