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Offline cehofer

Re: AmigaOne-Xe/G4 board needed
« on: December 27, 2014, 04:56:52 PM »
Here is a really cool feature of the AmigaOne XE/G4 and it helped me troubleshoot and fix mine.  This takes all the guessing out of why it is not booting.  I hear other AmigaOnes have this feature as well, however, I can't say for sure.

Connect a null modem cable to COM 1 (left port) and then use a terminal program.  I used Teraterm it is free on the net.   I also used a USB to 9 pin serial dongle.  Set the serial to 115200, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit.   If you don't know how to do this and know a Cisco guy, we do this all the time to access routers and switches.

This is the output of my XE/G4.  I was getting the "black screen of death" and it was failing at the memory check (1024 Line).  I replaced the memory and I was back in business.

It seems like when I let the Amigaone sit for a few months, it won't boot and I have to reseat the CPU module.  However, this was not the case this time.  I hear about replacing the 2032 coin battery but that has never fixed mine.  I was looking on YouTube and there was a guy that baked his CPU module in the oven to resolder all the connections.  In his video it did fix his BOD.  I would only use this as a last ditch effort because when the solder melts in the oven, your components can move or fall off.

This is what is should look like with 1 Gig of Ram in bank 0.

U-Boot 1.1.1 (Mar  3 2005 - 16:42:53), Build: 03/03/05

CPU:   MPC7455 v2.1 @ 800 MHz
Board: AmigaOne
DRAM:
Information for SIMM bank 0:
Number of banks: 2
Number of row addresses: 13
Number of coumns addresses: 11
SIMM is registered
Supported burst lenghts: 8 4 2 1 PAGE
Supported CAS latencies: CAS 3 CAS 2
RAS to CAS latency: 3
Precharge latency: 3
SDRAM highest CAS latency: 750
SDRAM 2nd highest CAS latency: 1000
SDRAM data width: 4
Auto Refresh supported
Refresh time: 1042 clocks
Bank 0 size: 512 MB
Bank 1 size: 512 MB

Slot 1: vacant
DIMM0_B0_SCR0 = 0x00ff9f00
DIMM0_B1_SCR0 = 0x00ff9f00
DIMM0_B2_SCR0 = 0x007f9f00
DIMM0_B3_SCR0 = 0x007f9f00
Using CAS 3 (slow)
DRAM_GCR0 = 0x00550800
Refresh set to 2083 clocks, auto refresh on
DRAM_REFRESH0 = 0x00019823
Mode bank 0: 0x00008032
Mode bank 1: 0x00008032
1024 MB                                <----------------------MINE WAS STOPPING HERE!
FLASH:  0 kB
VGA:   0 ..
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
« Last Edit: December 27, 2014, 05:10:47 PM by cehofer »