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Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« on: November 23, 2010, 04:27:18 AM »
Does anybody know what could be causing a MiniMegi chip not to work.  I install the chip in the agnus slot.  I insert the Gary chip in the slot riser and insert the riser in the Gary slot.  After all this, the computer looks to booting up according to HDD Led but no video is output to my monitor.  I have my monitor hooked up to the Indivision ECS scandoubler.  Is there some kind of incompatibility with this scan doubler and the MiniMegi chip or is there some other problem I may be having.  Thanks.

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Re: Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2010, 04:37:42 AM »
I could try hooking up my 1080 to see if it is correctly booting.  One more question.  Do you or anybody else know of a screen shot that I could look at showing a correctly hooked up DCE Minimegi chip and gary adapter.  This would verify whether I have everything turned the correct way.  Thanks.
 

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Re: Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2010, 04:53:37 AM »
I attempted to boot it up one more try and for some reason it worked this one time.  After that, every time I boot up, my screen flashes green.  The hard drive doesn't load the OS, the screen just continues to flash green.  Does anybody know what a flashing green screen means?
 

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Re: Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2010, 04:56:50 AM »
UPdate:  I did a google search and found that a flashing green screen on bootup means there is an error in chip ram.  Now what do I do?
 

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Re: Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2010, 05:03:45 AM »
I can't pull the Agnes out.  I bought the version from Amigakit that has an Agnes chip already soldered into the MiniMegi board itself.  I removed my old chip and dropped this entire unit in its place.  Is there some compatibility with the chip Amigakit uses and my motherboard?
 

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Re: Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2010, 05:20:29 AM »
Ok, final update:  It now works.  I gave a few good pushes on the MiniMegi board and I think that may have completely seated it.  I think I may have slightly deformed the motherboard socket pins and the MiniMegi may not be sitting in there as snug as it should be.  I think it may actually be "floating in the socket" if you know what I mean.  I am going to open it up and re-straighten or re-align the pins on the motherboard to grab the chip better.  Thanks for everybodies help.

I have one small question.  Out of curiosity, what would happen if sombody were to remove their regular agnus from their A2000 and install the Agnus from the A3000?  Would that work, or would it crash the machine?  Thanks.
 

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Re: Problem hooking up MiniMegi chip in A2000
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2010, 09:09:22 AM »
Thanks for the help everyone, I finally got it to work.  I believe I just needed to seat it better.  I will let you kjnow if I have any more problems.