WTB: Blizzard PPC accelerator

[CLS2086]

@doctorq : I know the solution about your SCSI problem.
Mine had the same too, and it cost me about 100e  (mine is a 210e@224 + 060/50 + SCSI)...
In fact, it was some dead soldering joint on the 060 side.
So Check that !  8-)
If you prefer, ask to http://www.amigacenter.com/

[doctorq]

@CLS2086

Thanks for the heads up, but I can't do it myself, and 100 EURO would already be half the price or more of a replacement BlizzardPPC board without problems.

[humppa]

doctorq wrote:
100 EURO would already be half the price or more of a replacement BlizzardPPC board without problems.

"Without problems" - thats in fact not so easy to achieve. I would say that at least 30% of the BPPC which you can buy from Ebay have at least some minor flaws or stability issues.

The ones "sold as is", or "was running 3 years ago when I sold  the rest of my Amiga" are in most cases simply broken. Still, people are paying a fortune for them.

[doctorq]

@humppa

You might be right, but have gotten some offers through this board where the 100 EURO is more or less half the price I would have to pay, and I'm still considering those offers. I have also bought BPPCs through ebay which haven't had any problems.

@thread
As a side note; I decided to put up the A1200 this evening, and made some adjustments. I replaced the PSU with a 450W one, and installed a 2.5" laptop drive. The computer now runs more or less stable if I press S during boot to disable the SCSI controller, and everything else seems to work (PPC demos work, ram is seen and used and of course the 68k works)

If I boot without pressing S, the actual loading of Workbench takes up till 45 seconds as oposed to 8 seconds without SCSI enabled (and the time searching for SCSI drives has been deducted). If I boot with SCSI I also get a wierd requestor now and then

Fatal error

Unit -1 (or something absurd like 1854354)
Illegal script instruction exception

Serial or OK

Any ideas? Or does anybody know if I can make the SCSI controller invisable to the card by removing just one component other than the SCSI chip? Then I could at least use it as a BPPC board with no SCSI....

[doctorq]

Still looking for a Blizzard PPC with SCSI controller, and in addition to that I could use one of the following accelerators as well

CyberStormPPC, more or less any spec
Blizzard 1230 MK4, preferably with SCSI controller

[doctorq]

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