APOLLO 1230-50 , 68030 Accelerator board issues.

[Retrofan]

Hi:
I believe he didn't read you have that PSU.
I haven't got that accelerator, but for the things I've heard, to start I would make two things:
1) Clean the board with a dry brush thoroughly. This is what @delshay told me: "PCB should be free of *All* materials it should be SUPER CLEAN no dust or fiber of hair as it does affect performance and can lead to random crashs,lock-up,data error or fail to boot altogether.
 
iv discovered this when i increased the bus speed of my card and got random errors,but found the fault to be dust/fiber built-up behind the simm ram chips legs.
 
i did not see it with the naked eye,only under a micoscope i spotted it and was very difficult to remove. after removing the dust/fiber the card work perfect with no random errors.
 
NOTE: random errors did not have much of a effect at lower bus speed when the dust/fiber was present.
 
dust/fiber can be anywhere with-in the computer and is sometimes very hard to spot, but is what i sometimes have to deal with from time to time."
 
2º) Put a fan over that accelerator. As you have enough power, you can put an Y-cable from where the floppy plugs in on the board to a fan. A cold board is a happy one.

[Retrofan]

I read about another guy having problems whith his Apollo 1240 and it was a problem whith the right libraries. He coudn't boot it and this was he discovered:
Quote:
"Hum,
i seem to remember that the 1240 came with a custom 040.library on floppy....(?)
 
"
 
Answer: "Thanks babe, that's exactly what it was! "
 
Perhaps you should look if you have the right library in your Apollo 1230-50, or at least try to reinstall it.

[Retrofan]

Ok.