Crash course in CS-PPC! Weirdness!

[rayt]

3)CS-PPC 233 w/ 060/50 - Can't get early boot menu, video total freaks out and monitor won't show anything as if the frquency went out of range. Otherwise will boot AmigaOS and runs super duper fast (seems stable at first impression) with PPC applications like PayBack.

Did you connect a 15khz monitor to the aga output or a vga/multiscan monitor? The csppc has a feature to show everything (csppc menu/early startup menu/etc) in 31khz. Maybe this feature is switched on. You can set it in the configuration menu of the card (hold esc after power on/reset).

[rayt]

I have a regular C=2002 RGB monitor connected. I suspected it was going to a frequency out of range. What seems to be a problem though is if I hit esc it still goes out of range. Am I going to need to make my own RGB->VGA adapter?

Hmm I dont know, I have bought one at a local amiga dealer some years ago. And a few weeks ago I have seen one at ebay.de. But I think the easiest thing to do is to reflash the csppc so it will have the default settings. You will just have to extract the archive, copy the file to a floppy disk or ide drive,  boot without startup sequence and execute the flashupdate.

You can find the flash updates here:
http://www.dcecom.de/pub/ppc/FlashUpdates-300399.lha
Its from this page:
http://www.dcecom.de/downloads.html

I dont know if its the latest flash update (I also got my first csppc this month) but i think so (who other than dce should have the latest version?). I hope it helps.

[rayt]

Use the space bar to toggle the 15/31Khz mode on the CSPPC menu, given that the default mode now is set on 31KHz (should work, I'm on a scandoubler so I can't notice any change).

Oh, I didnt know that. So no need to flash the card because of the screenmode. :-)