Pegasos on the way - yay!

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Hope everyone receives what he desires (those lucky buggers having both... is there such a person yet?) and will be happy with that. :-)

Hope you will love it when you receive - reviews, I want reviews. If you receive OS4 I want another review ofcourse :-)

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AFAIR If you have a Radeon 8500 and a fan on it, the first life sign will be the fan on the GFX card starts to spin, regardless that your ram is faulty, the whole mobo got trashed during transfer, whatever. When the mobo is on, the fan spins.

If you have some trouble, for example bogus rams, the debug output will tell you.

Wishing luck! Hope you will succeed. :-)

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The naming convention of the wires depends on the case manufacturers. I remember sitting in front of the wires being puzzled, calling some friends which one can be the Power button. (At me it was SomethingMB or the like? I can't remember, honestly.)

Everyone around me received the schemantics in printed form tho. Maybe your dealer forgot to include it?

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It's still better than some Amiga cases. When I received my V-Tower for my A1200 the dealer forgot to send me the user guide. When I complained he told me that everything he received was sent to me. One day later they found the user guide though... And they have sent it to me. It was in german... I'll never forget the word "kabel-klampsmitter". :-)

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Don't give up. :-)

There are pretty much things one can overlook. Let me mention two of my friends. Both complained that the board is non functioning. For the first it turned out, that he tried to use a 4x CD-ROM from the jurassic, and a 200Mb(!) HDD. (Most probably from Noah's PC store) When he bought a new CD-ROM and a more moden HDD it worked.

For the second it turned out however that it broke in transit... Genesi replaced the broken board though, so you lose nothing, except time.

For me, at first I tried the board with only a CD-ROM which turned out to be just too little for the ATX PSU of the house. When I added the HDD it magically started.

So don't give up, it's just a computer :-)

(I have to mention, that despite the Pegasos is available as Prebuilt systems, most of us purchased the mobo only - so we get what we deserve... :-))

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Wilse wrote:

Both complained that the board is non functioning. For the first it turned out, that he tried to use a 4x CD-ROM from the jurassic, and a 200Mb(!) HDD. (Most probably from Noah's PC store) When he bought a new CD-ROM and a more moden HDD it worked.

Hmm. The HD is brand new but the CD-ROM is an old 24x device from about 5 yrs ago. I'll try it with the CDRW in my girlfriend's PC. It's only about 2 years old.
Was his case completely dead before he changed these parts?

He told us it's not functioning at all. (We didn't know about the parts he used, he just told us that it's crap. It was for us to find out, that he used those. (I have no idea how he managed to get such an ancient HDD))

He is a happy Pegasos user today. :-)

Are the HDD/CD jumpers all right? Are the units at the right place on the 80 wire IDE cable? Any life sign? (even if tiny?)

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I'm beginning to think it might be the Pegasos mobo which is goosed.

If that is the case then contact Genesi and they will exchange it for you. However, let that be the last option. I know it's unprobable, but it can be that you simply overlook something.

The best option would be if there were a Pegasos user nearby, meeting him and trying out the mobo by replacing his mobo with yours. That'd give an exact YES/NO concerning whether it's a working or a damaged one.

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Something I hadn't noticed before was that the fan on the graphics card *does* spin up. It's so quiet compared to the PC and facing downwards, that I hadn't noticed it.
The output to the monitor is still blank though. (light grey/white screen)

That is a good sign. There IS electricity at least. :-) The serial debug will be decisive though - if you get no serial debug output at all, then the mobo is broken. If serial debug works - it will tell you what the problem is. :-)

Wishing it's the latter. Good luck!

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DaveP wrote:
Sweet. I hope you add all what has been discussed in this thread into an FAQ or into something that gets shipped with later Pegasos motherboards ( on paper! ).

For MorphOS there is a guide at here.

As for the HW, if you order a preinstalled system you will not face problems, except damage caused by the transfer.

When you buy a standalone system and you buy all the accessories then you're on your own. The schemantics is pretty self explanatory in most cases.

A short troubleshooting guide and a few words about the OpenFirmware serial debug would be nice though. I agree.