I sold an Apollo 1240 to a guy in Italy recently.
It worked fine on the system it was in, a basic towered A1200 - 3.0 ROMs, rev1d4, CD-ROM and 3.5" HD running off the normal IDE header.
He's left me +ve feedback and is quite happy with it, and me. But I want to see him with it working.
Here is his first email:
Hello, I've written a positive feedback to you. I've a problem with my 1200. I've installed the board but the amiga doesn't work! I had a blizzard installed before the apollo. All was ok. I've uninstalled the 68030 and put the 68040. Nothing. I've restore the basic system, without the boards, but nothing yet... I'm not telling to you that is caused by your board, but I want to know if the boards wanted a stronger power supply ... Please reply. Bye
I suggested that the A1200 PSU wouldn't be powerful enough, if he had HD, external floppy etc, and that he should ensure he had 68040 library in his LIBS: drawer.
He replied:
I have linked a pc power supply made by myself. the amiga worked fine with also my 68030 blizzard. With the pc power supply Hd, floppy and cdrom are powered by it and not from amiga.
At this point, I don't know what to suggest - I said that he needs to have a SIMM in the accelerator (I sent him a 16MB one with the board) - but he probably isn't stupid.
I really want to help this guy out, but I don't know what else to suggest - it worked fine when I had it. Do you think it might have got trashed in transit?
Anyone got any suggestions?
Regards,
Cyberus
