Blizzard PPC + BVisionPPC: system unstable :-(

[PulsatingQuasar]

AFAIK

There were a batch of BlizzardPPC (early in the BlizzardPPC phase) that had problems with the flashROM. Everything was fine when not flashed but when flashed (needed for settings menu, BVision and GRex) the card became unstable.

DCE took quite some time to find this out! They now know what too look for so it will probably be an easy fix for them.

[PulsatingQuasar]

A 3.5" power connector connected to the A1200 floppy power point. This can get very hot.

That's the only thing I did to my setup!!

I did direct a fan at the Permedia 2 because when the chip became hot I got visual artifacting.

[PulsatingQuasar]

I also have a fan above the 68040 and a fan connected to a 5 1/4 bay, turned 90 degrees to get the heath away from the space between the BlizzardPPC and the case.

I did this because the side of my Elbox became warm. Not anymore now.

I'm thinking of buying a proper graphic chip heatsink cooler with fan and glue that to the Permedia 2. Then I can run the chip on it's proper speed.

[PulsatingQuasar]

I was thinking of diging up some PC videocard specs with a Permedia 2 chip and heatsink+fan and see on which speed those run and then set it to those speeds.

I'm not going to overdo it though! I wan't to keep my BlizzardPPC for a long long time :-)  :-)