Thanks to Genesi and Phinixi.com

[Samuar]

Thanks Lando.

By the way, which part of Manchester u living in?

[Lando]

I'm in East Didsbury right now, but hoping to move into an apartment in the city centre next month.  What about u?  

There seems to be quite a lot of us (Amigans) in Manchester.  Could be a good idea to have a Pegasos/Amiga user group?

[Samuar]

Being a 4 eyed computer science student, when it isnt summer, i live nr Oxford Road. I'm studying at UMIST, but live on the private student halls "Student Village" off Lower Chatham Street, on the Man Met Campus.

Yeah, I would be up for starting/attending such a group.

However, I still can't find where to plug my "Power On" button connector. :-( U got a diagram/piccy from a webcam/digital camera that u could circle with a thick red line with the words "Sam u n00b, plug ur power button here!".

[bbrv]

Hey!  You guys get the group organized and we will provide free MorphOS t-shirts for your first meeting!  :-D

If one of you is weilling to get a Pegasos Users Group website up and running we could do something more...;-)

Raquel and Bill  :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Samuar

Didn't you get the "Technical Specifications" document? Log in to the Beta2 FTP server and download "docs/FrontPanel.pdf" (and "PegasosTechSpec.pdf", but it's the "FrontPanel.pdf" that contains the detailed info about the pin layout).

OK, I assume that you are mounting the motherboard into a tower case, with the ATX PSU connector "up", the PCI slots "down", the external connectors "left" and the Floppy and IDE connectors "right".

You will find the "Miscellaneous Connectors" (a lot of pins) just to the left of the Floppy drive connector. The "Power On" is the two pins furthest to the bottom (going left to right). The Reset pins are the two pins just above the power on pins (also left-right). Above the reset pins are the Power Led pins (also left-right) and above that you will find the HDD Led (also left-right). The Speaker connector are four pins wide, with the "Speaker +" pin Top Left.

Hmm, hope you understand. ;-)

[Samuar]

ah i see (lightbulb above head shines brightly).

I couldnt work out what device that was for, but now it all makes sense. Thanks for that.

Pegasos/Amiga Manchester Users Group - PAMUG
What do you think?

I think we can freely/cheaply use the rooms in the Reynolds Building at UMIST, after hours... ....but I'd have to look into it. As for the website, I have plenty of time - so I'll start work on that soon.

And the offers for the free t-shirts for our first meeting - sounds like a great idea and offer - thank you very much.

[bbrv]

Samuer...you start it; you name it!!!  :-)

PAMUG!

MMAPUG!

MPUG!

Whatever!  Just do it!  :-D

R&B  :-)

[Samuar]

It was Landos idea - so I think it shud be up to him.

But I think it would be a great idea to share ideas and to see other people's hardware.

[downix]

@samuar

With the IDE and FD ports in the upper righthand corner (looking at the pegasos from the PCI side) is a smallish port, only 26-pins.  That is where you go.  The last row of pins is the power-on jumper.

[Samuar]

Right, power button problem solved - system powers on. Cue next problem......


.....nothing is displayed on screen, but hard drive, cdrom are clearly being used from sound. I've tried two good AGP cards I know work (one ATI and one NVIDIA GeForce 2 Pro). However, I am using a 256MB SDRAM PC133 stick - instead of ECC + Registered. Am I right in thinking the problem should go away if I purchase and use ECC & Reg Ram instead of the bog standard SDRAM?

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Samuar

Like this (click here and browse forward)?

Edit:
Yes, the Articia is rediculously fastidious when it comes to RAM. But in the linked thread above you will find a lot of hints and suggestions ...

[takemehomegrandma]

BTW, does anyone know if Wilse finally got his Pegasos to work?

[porneL]

I got mine few days ago
With free shipping too! (polish distributor)

Now I must get slick microatx case with fanless power supply (dont want to spoil cool board with noisy case :> )

[Samuar]

Phinixi have run out of their phree boards for developers, for now. Thanks go to them for their efforts in providing these boards, and for the efforts made to create a development community with access to online tools and facilities.

Genesi through the various worldwide websites, including http://www.pegasosppc.com. In the UK, the bare pegasos boards are available much more cheaply than the bare AmigaOne boards. Well worth it.