dead bridgeboard?

[DamageX]

I got a A2286. I stuck it in my A2000, changed jumpers on a ZII card so it would have 6MB of fast RAM (leaving address space for the bridgeboard), and installed the Janus stuff that I downloaded from the BBoAH. The floppy drive (attached to the bridgeboard) light doesn't come on, nothing displays on a monitor connected to an ISA VGA card, and the PC-prefs always says it can't load janus.library.

The library is installed where it belongs, and I tried turning off the 68030 data cache as well as booting in 68000 mode. Also, I don't know what the jumpers are for on the A2286 but they are set the same as the ones pictured at Amiga Hardware Database.

[Kronos]

Remove those 6MB and try again (it may be that there is still a collison). Actually strip down the A2000 to it's bare bones just to be sure.

[spirantho]

Indeed... remove everything you don't need.

The Janus.library is opened by BindDrivers (make sure you have the right janus.library in the :expansion/ directory of your boot disk!).

If you suspect dodgy hardware then check the RAM - use ShowConfig or similar to see where the RAM is, and then check the dual ported RAM using a memory testing utility like one of the ones on Aminet. If the memory doesn't check out OK, there's your problem.

First thing though should always be to remove everything unnecessary, when diagnosing problems...