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Offline miggy1974Topic starter

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Blizzard 1260 running fine now at the correct speed
« on: June 18, 2008, 02:35:12 PM »
Hi all my blizzard 1240 card that i converted to a 1260 was not working properly and sysspeed was telling me it ran at only 16mhz and 21mips. I located the problem down to the amigas stock psu wich can only pump out around 23watts. this was when i had my powerflyer gold fitted on the mobo it was drawing more power than the stock supply to give so the 1260 suffered and didn't run at the correct speed. I just disconnected the powerflyer and ran sysspeed again and it stated 68060 running at 50mhz and 65.8mips which is now i belive the correct speed with 60ns ram fitted.

All i say to everyone dont use a stock amiga 1200 psu if you have more than a harddrive and accelerator board attatched as this gave me a real headache to say the least.

Thanks again all who contributed to helping me with my conversion of which pictures of the finished board can be seen at the english amiga board.
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Amiga, keep the faith :-)
 

Offline miggy1974Topic starter

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Re: Blizzard 1260 running fine now at the correct speed
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 11:15:45 PM »
Hi jeff, i used a 50watt solder station with leadfree solder, i much prefer leaded solder though but it is now i think illeagal to use it and i have bundles of the stuff bummer. I attached the board to an revolving metal stand which i made for this type of work, it grips the board so it is easily to get to any part of the board with the soldering iron. I used solder braid to easliy desolder the old 040 cpu and fitted the 68060 socket and carefully soldered each point making sure to leave no dry joints, pretty difficult this was but got there in the end.

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Amiga, keep the faith