Video Toaster error message on bootup

[SEgamer]

Last week I got my second Amiga, an A2000. It came installed with a GVP 030 accelerator+RAM+SCSI card and a video toaster 2000.

Specs are:
68030 accelerator card @ 33 MHz
12 MB expanded RAM (4MB on the card, 2 x 4MB SIMM cards)
1 MB onboard RAM
SCSI interface w/ Quantum Fireball 2GB HDD (surprisingly most files are still there)
Motherboard Rev. 6.2
Kickstart 2.04
No keyboard (working on a deal at the moment), but did come with a mouse

I've been playing around with it for the past few days and seems to be all working fine except a couple of issues:

At first I was having trouble getting the machine to boot from the hard drive. The HD light would come on and an AmigaDOS window came up but said "setmap failed". So I booted Workbench 2.x from a floppy, and I could access the hard drive. Turned out Setmap wasn't in the System drawer, so I copied that from the floppy over and got a bit further (I think) into the boot sequence.

Now the AmigaDOS comes up, then a Video Toaster logo pops up with "Please Wait", then an error message pops up saying "Could not obtain CHIP memory". But Workbench sees the entire 13MB of RAM which would include the chip RAM. I get the same error message if I boot off of a floppy and try to run any of the VT programs that are still on the hard drive. My guess is that there's an important file missing but I'm not sure where to look.

[mechy]

Last week I got my second Amiga, an A2000. It came installed with a GVP 030 accelerator+RAM+SCSI card and a video toaster 2000.

Specs are:
68030 accelerator card @ 33 MHz
12 MB expanded RAM (4MB on the card, 2 x 4MB SIMM cards)
1 MB onboard RAM
SCSI interface w/ Quantum Fireball 2GB HDD (surprisingly most files are still there)
Motherboard Rev. 6.2
Kickstart 2.04
No keyboard (working on a deal at the moment), but did come with a mouse

I've been playing around with it for the past few days and seems to be all working fine except a couple of issues:

At first I was having trouble getting the machine to boot from the hard drive. The HD light would come on and an AmigaDOS window came up but said "setmap failed". So I booted Workbench 2.x from a floppy, and I could access the hard drive. Turned out Setmap wasn't in the System drawer, so I copied that from the floppy over and got a bit further (I think) into the boot sequence.

Now the AmigaDOS comes up, then a Video Toaster logo pops up with "Please Wait", then an error message pops up saying "Could not obtain CHIP memory". But Workbench sees the entire 13MB of RAM which would include the chip RAM. I get the same error message if I boot off of a floppy and try to run any of the VT programs that are still on the hard drive. My guess is that there's an important file missing but I'm not sure where to look.

Just a shot in the dark but maybe the machine had a dkb megachip installed that was possibly removed before you got the machine which gave it 2MB chip ram and some of the toaster stuff that was installed is needing that extra ram?

Mech

[amiga-penn-wchester]

The toaster needs at the very minimum 1 meg of chipram to get started.  My guess is that you have 1 meg onboard but the agnus is either 512k, or its 1MB but not jumpered correctly.  If there isn't about 975k free in chip, toaster  won't boot regardless of any amount of 32bit ram on the accel.

To get toaster to boot with only 1meg + 5 other memory, I had to reduce the workbench colors to 2.  You can also reinstall and select the option to "boot directly to toaster" or what not, may save you some memory.

[SEgamer]

Thanks for the replies. Got me looking into it more and found out that only 512k of memory is being seen by the system. The other 512k doesn't show up at all (as chip RAM nor fast RAM).

Made a new thread in the Hardware forum:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=694842#post694842