A1200T + BPPC (Resolved)

[Effy]

If there is no harddrive connected then the computer will wait at least 20 secs before it continues ...

[Effy]

An hour is indeed a few minutes too long.
What Piru says is true. I sold another BPPC to a dutch guy with a desktop and he also couldn´t get it working. Turned out that 256 Ram was too much drain on the power line and that he needed to connect his pc power supply to the floppy connector as Piru says ...

[Effy]

I have learned to wait with accusing somebody until all the options are tested. It´s not the first time that a BPPC refuses to work but afterwards turns out to be not defective. Fact is that the card worked when it was shipped to you last year in December. It is also not my fault that you bought the card assuming it was for an A4000 as this is the mail I got from you on January 3 :

"Man I am a complete retard. I will have to turn around and resell this soon. Turns out I forgot to check into the BPPC long enough to find out that its only for an A1200. I have an A4000D. Sigh... Well if you come across an A4000 PPC accelerator let me know. In the meantime if you know someone who wants to trade please let me know. Maybe I can find a cheap NTSC A1200."

[Effy]

I don´t like the idea that I would be somebody who likes to ripp off other Amiga guys. I always do my very best to make everybody happy and now it seems to look like I am the bad guy who did everything wrong, don´t like that. I prefer to think before I write, that´s why I haven´t posted so often in this thread though I followed it all the time !!

[Effy]

Nyteschayde : I don´t mind dragging the subject to this forum, but to be honest you forgot to add my answer I gave you yesterday :

"hi Gabriel,
           I know for myself that when I have a problem that I can not solve that I ask for help at Amiga.org, just like you did. Check out their answers.
 
greets,
Effy."

So far I have not only seen possible answers to this problem, I have also learned answers that I didn´t know yet.  But it worries me that you seem to be so sure that the card won´t work, even when you get different possible reasons from people that have more experience in these things than you and me together  :-o

[Effy]

About the BPPC, of course it is overclocked as there is no 33 Mhz BPPC sold as you can find on The Big Book, that´s the first place where I look for information when I am not sure about a product. The PPC used to run at 160 Mhz and had a four hour 100% processorload for testing and it worked like a dream. There have been reports about other 160 Mhz PPC´s that have been overclocked to 225 Mhz and still worked very well. The 68040 used to run at 25 Mhz and is now clocked at 33 Mhz. It may survive with a big heatsink but the best thing with an 68040 is indeed always to add a cooler, even on an 25 Mhz one.
The card was working when I sold it to you for 215 Euro including 128 Mb Simm + 64 Mb Simm and including 19 Euro shipping to the USA so from my point of view this was not a high price for a good working BPPC card. I have seen many higher prices being asked at AmiBench and even at Ebay. And just for the record, I am not the type of guy who sells broken cards, there´s no fun in doing that, at least not for me ...

[Effy]

No I am not, I have a steady girlfriend which is in my eyes similar to marriage  :lol:

[Effy]

I recall that Amiga4001 had big problems getting his CyberstormPPC to work with power supplies other than his original A4000 D power supply. It later turned out that all those heavy ATX power supplies (up to 600W) could not give a  5 Volt signal but only close to 4 V and therefor his CyberstormPPC just refused to boot up. Think there must be a thread about that somewhere ... THIS is that thread, not that it means that this is the same problem with the Blizzard PPC but I just want to point out the problem of  not having enough power, even if your power supply tells you it has more power than you would need ...