A4KD+CSPPC+boot-up probs

[Will-i-am]

Well I tried again to get my a4k tower to use that funny '060 card and it just won't. And the friend who gave it to me died last Thanksgiving so he can't help. I decided to take it out and just use the '040 card from the desktop model and put the Cyberstorm that had been in the tower before into the desktop. Swapping cpu's again I did the clock jumper change and checked all my cables etc and the A4KD has used this Cyberstorm before, but now it's doing the same thing the tower did. You turn on the power and the Amiga tries to boot, no colors on screen. hiccups a couple of times and then gives me a guru screen asking for me to click the left mouse button. Then without me clicking on anything the guru screen goes away, the machine hiccups a couple of times, spits up the guru screen again(click left mouse button to continue...), doesn't wait for me to click the mouse and does the whole thing over again. It just sits there cycling thru this sequence over and over. I never seemed to get the tower to run quite right under os 3.9 but the desktop did, and now it doesn't. Must be the Cyberstorm, right? But what would make it cycle thru this guru screen over and over? I'm used to sick Amigas flashing various colors and even if it did put up a guru screen I don't see why it doesn't wait for the mouse click to try again. What's happening?

[doctorq]

How long does it take before the guru disappears and starts booting again? To me it sounds like a missing 68060.library, as the machine will crash at loading SetPatch, if a 68060 CPU is present, but no 68060.library installed.

[PaSha]

again I did the clock jumper change

Hmmm.... you do know the CS-PPC requires the clock jumpers to be set to 'EXT', right? Just like most (if not all) 040-boards.

-Paul

[amiga4001]

Make sure you got a "naked" A4000mobo.So just the mobo+cyberstorm and PSU No cables/drives what so ever.
If you can try another PSU from an other 4000.
Bold the cyberstorm firmly down to the mobo (saves you a lot of guru's/freezes etc...).
Make sure the fan on the ppc is running!!!!!!!
Hold down the escape key on the keyboard and see if you can get into the bootmemu of the cyberstorm.
If you can leace it on for a while and reboot again and try again to enter with the escape key.
If it comes this far the card should be ok and it will be your software which gives you problems.

[Will-i-am]

it takes 5 sec to reboot after the first guru. There is a 68060 library on the HD, BUT this is the beast that came as part of a purchase of equipment from Philips, including the tower with the curious '060 board. The Install disks that came had written on them that they had been modified to include an '060 library which, I believe, was a 'special' library for that board which Philips made. So at this point I am not sure which of the various '060 libraries is the best one for the Cyberstorm. Anybody know the datestamp for the correct one? Yeah, I seem to have lost the Cyberstorm software. I had sold (stoopid,stoopid,stoopid) my other Cyberstorm but had the original install disks, only now I don't seem to. And now the desktop A4K is really messed up! I tried a different '060 library with an earlier date and now I can't even get it to boot from a floppy! I think my floppy drive just decided to kick as well. I got a "df0: failed" warning! YIKES! This isn't a lot of fun anymore. All I did was copy the library from the disk to the HD and then a warm boot. I got the df0: failed warning and turned the power right off when everything locked up. Now I get a grey screen with some squiggly lighter grey lines in the middle, as if the workbench screen was sort of there but squeezed down into a half inch. Dang. And no indication that the df0: is working now. Soooo, maybe I have a bad floppy AND a bad '060 library. I guess maybe it's time for a real deep thought session before I pull any more stunts. Maybe it's time to plug the '040 card back in and bag the Cyberstorm up for awhile. :-?