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Offline n9uxuTopic starter

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Viper + EDO SIMM = Purple Boot screen
« on: November 30, 2005, 01:11:33 AM »
Greetings!  I just took delivery today of a Viper Mk II 030 board (with 68882) and 16MB edo simm.  Upon insertion into my A1200s trapdoor (hmmm...that sounds vaguely dirty), I was greeted only with a hard drive whir and a pretty light purple boot screen....

After a bit of troubleshooting, I noticed that it boots up very well with the simm removed.  The system showconfig ap shows the 030 and FPU and lists and unknown board (HD? + Rom) under the boards list...

The 1200 is running kickstart 3.1 and WB3.0 (soon to be 3.9 if I can get the ram working and a cd hooked up).

When the 16mb wouldn't work, I pulled 4 32mb simms from a next turbo to try...no dice...purple friggin' screen.

Any troubleshooting thoughts would be appreciated.

Dave
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Re: Viper + EDO SIMM = Purple Boot screen
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2005, 04:54:31 AM »
Okay...apparently I need to read the forums more.  The viper mark II (alias DKB cobra) has a firmware issue with 3.1 roms.   According to another post on the site, I just need to run the dkb.ferret boot disk to upgrade the firmware.  I'll find a pc with a floppy drive tomorrw, so that I can xdms the dms image to adf, compress it and copy it to a double density floppy which can be carried to the a1200 tomorrow for cross dossing...ugh...

Dave
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Re: Viper + EDO SIMM = Purple Boot screen
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2005, 09:33:46 AM »
Hey, that´s what this forum is all about, to help people out as fast as possible !!!  :lol: It took us all a lot of time but we are happy to have helped you out  :lol:
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SCORE!!
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2005, 01:35:59 AM »
GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Thanks to all, I now have the amiga purring along with it's 68030/68882 combo and 32mb of fastram (I'm sure I must have a 128mb stick around somewhere).  I am now just one scsi adapter away from getting 3.9 on this puppy (need some way to hook up the cdrom drive).

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