Dying A1200?

[Disparil]

UPDATE: I got the spare motherboard, and... I found the culprit. The 3.1 roms! The new motherboard had 3.0 roms and booted, but when I switched the 3.1 roms from the old one, it didn't work at all. The old one worked fine when I installed the 3.0 roms. So, both boards work with the 3.0 roms, but neither work with the 3.1's. I already ordered new 3.1 roms so all should be well soon

Weird though, I would've never thought that the rom chips could fault like that. Has anyone ever encountered something like this?

[mongo]

UPDATE: I got the spare motherboard, and... I found the culprit. The 3.1 roms! The new motherboard had 3.0 roms and booted, but when I switched the 3.1 roms from the old one, it didn't work at all. The old one worked fine when I installed the 3.0 roms. So, both boards work with the 3.0 roms, but neither work with the 3.1's. I already ordered new 3.1 roms so all should be well soon

Weird though, I would've never thought that the rom chips could fault like that. Has anyone ever encountered something like this?

I've had a ROM chip go bad on me before.

[gertsy]

Never.  Weird.  You might want to check you don't have any power issues on your MB. Perhaps the old Roms got zapped somehow.?

[Disparil]

Sorry to conjure up an old thread, but there have been changes. I might have spoken too soon about the ROMs being to blame, since the thing wouldn't work properly even after changing them. However, after a long time of changing stuff and getting really pissed at my Amiga, I got it to boot. I only had to change the Mediator's CONFIG jumper...

But the problems don't end there, oh no! Now on every boot Cache CDFS informs me "Cannot open "atapi.device" on unit 1. I tried to reinstall IdeFix but it couldn't find my CD drive. I have changed the IDE cable, tried 3 different cd drives. There's a hard drive on the same cable and that works fine.

Pciinfo can't run since it can't find pci.library, which is weird because pci.library has been installed. Also, MedConfig couldn't find any PCI cards installed on the Mediator and told me to change the CONFIG jumper setting, but if I do that, then the Amiga stalls on the error message about the atapi.device.

Does anyone have any idea what I could do about this? I'll probably try to do a clean install on a fresh drive using UAE and then see if that will do anything...

[Disparil]

Okay, update on the situation! After tinkering feverishly for a few nights, I finally have a working setup again, and somehow I even got the CD drive to work again. HOWEVER...

Mediator is still giving me grief. The drivers install alright, but depending on the CONFIG jumper setup, if I try to run Medconfig it either crashes the Amiga or complains about the CONFIG jumper. The same thing with Pciinfo, it either crashes the system or complains about not being able to open pci.library.

I currently have the Voodoo3 and an ethernet card installed on the Mediator. I suspect the Voodoo might be fried since at one point I got an electric shock from it I've read that the Mediator _needs_ the Voodoo for anything else to work, could that be the answer? Oh well, I have a Radeon 9200 on the way, I guess I'll find out then...

[AmigaClassicRule]

Aren't ROMs the only part in the Amiga that will NEVER EVER suppose to die? Aren't they broken proof?
 

Okay, update on the situation! After tinkering feverishly for a few nights, I finally have a working setup again, and somehow I even got the CD drive to work again. HOWEVER...

Mediator is still giving me grief. The drivers install alright, but depending on the CONFIG jumper setup, if I try to run Medconfig it either crashes the Amiga or complains about the CONFIG jumper. The same thing with Pciinfo, it either crashes the system or complains about not being able to open pci.library.

I currently have the Voodoo3 and an ethernet card installed on the Mediator. I suspect the Voodoo might be fried since at one point I got an electric shock from it I've read that the Mediator _needs_ the Voodoo for anything else to work, could that be the answer? Oh well, I have a Radeon 9200 on the way, I guess I'll find out then...

From the looks of it, you are trying to get a rusty car that squeeks, goes to the mechanic all the time for repairs and breaks right away with a very long milage to get it back into a racing car O_O.

[Disparil]

From the looks of it, you are trying to get a rusty car that squeeks, goes to the mechanic all the time for repairs and breaks right away with a very long milage to get it back into a racing car O_O.

I know It may not make any sense, but then again, not everything has to. At one point I almost gave up but now the thing is up again, so I guess perseverance paid off... at least until the next hiccup!

[scuzzb494]

I would avoid messing with anything else and just go source a motherboard. The risk is that you will damage a component of something that is way more valuable. Amiga 1200 motherboards are really ten a penny compared to some of your other kit... Thinking about the Blizzard mostly.

I have problems with one of my towers which I put down to it standing vertical in the case, cus with just the odd nudge it will come back to life. The things junk so I really am not that bothered. Just funny giving it the old BSA treatment to get the thing working.

Sorry... didn't read the last post. Good luck.

[Disparil]

I would avoid messing with anything else and just go source a motherboard. The risk is that you will damage a component of something that is way more valuable. Amiga 1200 motherboards are really ten a penny compared to some of your other kit... Thinking about the Blizzard mostly.

I actually changed the motherboard at one point, and it *seemed* to help things somewhat.

I have problems with one of my towers which I put down to it standing vertical in the case, cus with just the odd nudge it will come back to life. The things junk so I really am not that bothered. Just funny giving it the old BSA treatment to get the thing working.

That used to work in my case, too. When the machine didn't boot up, I'd nudge all the cards and components a bit and then it worked again. Especially the Indivision often crept out of its place a bit so that it wouldn't work. At some point, that nudging tactic just didn't work anymore.