Algor USB and A2000 problem

[platon42]

Michael Böhmer would appreciate if you could send him the serial number of your Algor board. It looks like the board is in "original delivery state", means that it has never been reflashed or updated.

You could try updating the bootloader by downloading the latest version of Luciferin from my website.

[platon42]

> You mean reflashing the flash rom could solve the problem, without hardware modification?

Yes, hopefully.

[platon42]

I thought you said you can eventually boot the Algor up to the workbench? If that's the case you simply would use the Luciferin software downloaded and installed from my website to reflash the bootloader.

If, however, you have problems booting, pressing and holding the *middle* mouse button right after powering the machine will skip the contents of the flashrom. This should also work with the left mouse button, if the Algor is NOT one of the first batches, because the first batch had the LMB and LMBMMB bootloaders confused (sorry).

About details on flashing, Luciferin comes with a rather complete manual

PS: "I have too much computers!!" <- that should be "too many" as you can count them (vs "too much water", as water cannot be counted).

[platon42]

I had one Algor user recently where cleaning the Zorro Connectors helped a great deal. Did you get any error messages while flashing the bootloader or contents (e.g. you could try flashing a kickrom without AlgorKick, so it wouldn't do anything)?

The Algor was tested a lot with the 2040, so there shouldn't be a problem with this particular turboboard.