OMG IT WORKED!!

[neofree]

Hey,

For those of you who read my threads about me taking off the SCSI chips/etc off my BlizzardPPC... IT WORKED!!   I thought it had not, but someone told me to press S to disable SCSI.  And guess what!  It's working now! I still need to wait for some packages to arrive to format it with OS3.9 on IDE, but I can't beleive my crazy idea to DOWNGRADE it to non-SCSI version worked!

Thanks,

Neofree

[neofree]

To those who asked:  The SCSI chip was damaged in shipping.  I made it worse trying to fix it.

And you guys are right, desoldering is tough... So tough I actually cut the pins off from the chip and used the iron to just push them off aftwards.  The only problem is I tooka  few traces off too around the SCSI chip.. Along with the 3 that were already damaged, there are 5 or more bad traces.  I did remove SCSI and the extra hardware as well that I could see that was not on the version without SCSI per pics on amiga.org and amiga-hardware.com.

I had actually ordered another broken board to try and fix one or the other, but the amiga repair center in france finally replied and said try to press S.  He said though you can't reflash without.. So I asked what else I can do to make it think it's non-SCSI version, havent heard back yet.

How do you get into the boot menu?  

Thanks,

Neofree

[neofree]

Hmm .. That doesnt work.. Does my BVision need to be in?

[neofree]

Having a hard time finding a working link for the firmware upgrade.  Anyone got any?

I already tried waiting for the lights to flash, that's how I got S to work.

Thanks,

Neofree