Crash course in CS-PPC! Weirdness!

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Ok I have 2 CSPPC cards, one CD, updated libs and no manual. So far every step I have tried has proven weird. A web search gives me no help for a manual.

Let's start from the beginning. What do I do? MB jumpers? Libs?  etc?

Also weirdness.. I plug in a cs-ppc and I can boot to a terribly unstable WB, but I cannot get the normal early boot menu. The video seems to go out of this 2002's frequency range :-? It does the same thing when trying to boot from the emergency boot disk. I am really wondering if this A4k mb has issues  :-?

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Ok I seem to have the 060 side up and running ok, just played Payback pre-PPC. Now I am updating it and see if I have PPC:-)

I suspect the 040 overheating caused lots of HD corruption. I had tons of junk going on in bs folders and files. I may hve to format and install from scratch:-/ Everting is pretty much working except Amidock which was hard crashing the system. i deleted it and so far so good..

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Umm.no giving up an CS-PPC, but I appreciate the help! uuuh..where does one find the C= 68040 library? Not on OS3.9 cd:-o

Edit: Found it on OS3.1, trying:-)

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Ok AmiDock is working, but I am still getting instability! Mostly whenever I try to use the CD-ROM drive. I have a Creative 52X CD-ROM drive hooked to the internal IDE port, with no IDE-fix. Is the internal IDE that flakey? Also the 68060 CPU feels aweful hot, I don't remember them running this warm :-?

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The weirdness continues. Here is what I have found so far.

1) The IDE is ultra flakey no matter what using this CD-ROM drive.
2) A3640 - installed it seems to work ok, but overheats after a while and gets totally wacko. Early boot menu jittery but comes up.
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.
4)CS-PPC 200 w/ 060/50 - Early boot menu comes up like normal, no jittery video. Everything seems to work fast.

Now what gives? Here are my burning questions.
a) Is the A4k IDE really that flakey with CD-ROMs, or possible just certain ones?
b) Wht the flakey or shot video output in certain modes like early boot menu with 2 out of 3 turbocards? Do 2 accelerators have issues? Sounds far fetched??

I'm taking this slow, I'm not getting frutrated or anything. Just trying to put my finger on the issues here :-)

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Whoa! I wake up to find just about every question I had answered in detail! As always you guys come through, thanks :-)

@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?

@tonyw
Good info, thank you for it. Do you happen to know the location #s? I'll speak with CE and his father about these, they probably have experience with them. It IS in a tower btw, it's my project machine:-)

@TjLaZer
I have OS3.9 installed so setpatch is likely in place, though I see a likely answer below:-)

@zipper
That probably explains it. Problem is I have 3 other CD-ROMs the A4k won't even boot with when hooked up. Looks like I will be using either the CS-PPC SCSI and/or Buddha:-)

@zipper #2
No I havn't had a chance to check the flash revision yet. What utility do i use to check it?

@all
Thanks again. It's nice to have friendly answers so close at hand, cheers!

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@cass

thanks for the info, I'll try tonight when I get home. As for stability on the PPC side, except for some keyboard weirdness once after launching Payback, it seems very good and VERY fast. I do mean fast! I really didn't expect this type of speed out of Payback using AGA! I can't wait to see what it will do with Voodoo3 and W3d :-D