Blizzard PPC Crisis

[Ryu]

will it not boot at all with the BPPC in place, just the BPPC? If you can get to the early boot menu you could try to reflash the BPPC, it could be the flash has gone haywire... If you cant even boot with the card then id say the cards dead... either that or the A1200 mobo has died somewhere...

[Ryu]

@Karlos

Your PPC does that too? I posted about that here a few weeks back quite worried about it... Mines done it a few times in the few weeks ive had it (my 2nd BPPC machine that is)... the last couple of times its gone its even forgotten what crystal speed it is so I have to use the MHZ switch in the flash command line to set it to 240 otherwise the flash doesnt work....

[Ryu]

id like to know what causes the card to loose its flash... none of the other BPPC cards ive had have ever done it except my recent addition, my BPPC 240mhz 040 with scsi

[Ryu]

Ive had the card now for about a month and ive had to do it about 6 times so far... the previous owner didnt tell me about the problem and I assume he didnt have the problem with it going on what he said in the emails we exchanged about it..

[Ryu]

hmm I dont know... I think the one I got came from eyetech, and the guy said the motherboard had fixes I think... I'll find out about the CC_reset when I get another PCMCIA nic for it.

[Ryu]

No no no CU an ATX PSU will not work in your current setup without a lot of rewireing and a lot of hastle. Your machine needs an AT PSU, and it would be better if you could get one above the 200 watt mark. Unfortunatly AT PSU's new are now rare, the last one I got, I got from an online mailorder company because I couldnt find any in my local area. I hope im not too late...

[Ryu]

@CU_AMiGA

Hows about you do a bit of work yourself? ;-) goto google and search for retailers in the UK that still stock AT PSU's. Also browse ebay... they tend to pop up there too... though I wouldnt hold your breath re a 300watt one, I've never seen them go above 250watt. Remember AT is old technology, they were used when the x86 cpu's werent massivly power hungry like they are now on ATX form factor motherboards.

[Ryu]

also I belive both eyetech and elbox sell ATX to AT converters so you might want to check that out if you want to get your current ATX PSU to work with your setup.

[Ryu]

the main difference between an AT and ATX PSU is that the ATX PSU is always live, and is turned on and off via "software", wheres an AT PSU is turn on and off with a proper switch. Thats why on modern PC's you can switch them off from the shut down option, because the PSU is connected to the motherboard, so it can send the off signal to the PSU.