Cyberstorm PPC problems

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I believe that the flashrom update does indeed update many aspects of the card (PPC, memory allocation & SCSI if fitted). Whatever you do don't send it to DCE (many cards I believe have gone missing), a better bet would be to get in touch with Hyperion who have found a reliable repairer for these cards and indeed are at present looking to get as many together to send as a large batch for repair (cuts costs for many cards as opposed to only a few).

If my memory serves me right it was announced on the news sites fairly recently that they were offering this service for the repair to Cyberstorm PPC cards in readiness for those people to be able to run OS 4 on them!

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A SEAL member Gary Storm had a very similar problem (on his BVision PPC card) and it did turn out to be the chip that holds the data.

He at first managed to re flash the card and it worked a bit flakey for a while and then when it failed again and he re updated it his card reported that it had 0Mb of RAM even though he had 64MB fitted.

When we dissabled everything in his user startup we managed to boot it with 2Mb of Chip RAM (not much use). He did manage to get his card repaired, it was a hardware prob in that the chip that holds the data er.....wasn't. New chip fitted all working fine!

Unfortunately I know no way of diagnosing whether it is a software problem or hardware problem!