80000004 guru blues

[awe4k]

Hi all,

I have the following setup:

A4000 desktop
CSPPC 060+604e/233
80Mb (more or less) on CSPPC board
0Mb on motherboard
IDE HD + IDE CR-RW
XSurf I
Highway USB
ChipRAM is on a "decent" socket with metallic brackets
System clock backed up by a standard 2032 battery.

It has been lingering in a cabinet for about two years without use. When it was put in store it was not working merely because I formatted the HD instead of floppy by mistake :-( and I never reinstalled the OS again. Otherwise, it was formerly running OS3.9 at perfection.

Now I want to rescue the computer and I have found out that it is very much unstable. I tend to get 80000004 errors. I thought that it was due to wrong 68040/68060 libraries, but I do not find the disk that came with the CyberStorm PPC.

Is my guess (wrong 68040/68060 libraries) correct or am I researching in a bad direction? I have tried and use other libraries I have found on the internet, and I also get the error, although at different moments and with different programs. I also get a Recoverable Alert during bootup.

What would you suggest?

Thanks!

PS Forgot to mention; setup includes FickerMagic (from DCE I think), the one that seats on top of the custom chips. But this should not cause the problem, should it?

[Robert17]

Okay, firstly, have you managed to start the machine at all without the guru?

I had a similar problem with My A4000 because of the wrong library names etc, fortunately the folks here helped me out,

Here's the advice I got anyways

These are files from Cyberpatcher, avail on aminet by the way ...run a search on aminet for 68060, or go to Biz/P5

68040.library
68040dummy.library
68060.library
And some .sig files that you can ignore for the installation.
Rename the file 68040.library as 68040new.library
Rename the file 68040dummy.library as 68040.library
Copy the files 68040.library, 68040new.library and 68060.library in LIBS: over your existing Phase5's 68040.library and 68060.library.
Copy from your Install 3.0/3.1 floppy the 68040.library as 68040old.library in LIBS: (You can also find it in the CU Amiga Magazine CUCD Series)
That's it.
If you install the wrong 68040.library, your 68060 will be recognized as a 68040.DON'T WORRY! You didn't FRY anything! If you experienced such problem, just follow the previous instructions for a correct installation. Anything will go ok.

Let us know how it goes  :-)

Robert

[patrik]

@awe4k:

Here is a direct link to the latest Phase5 68060-libraries archive:
68060-191099.lha


/Patrik

[awe4k]

Hi,

Thanks for your good advice. This is what I have done.

First, I have got rid of OS3.9  I will use the Amiga at home, connected to the telly via SCART cable. My real plans for the machine are that I want it to be a "CD32 emulator", an "ADSL web browser", and to display the photos from my digital camera (and record them on CD too). And most important, ALL from the sofa.

The Amiga crashed not long after it booted, once 3.1 installed. I booted without startup-sequence, and deleted the 68040.library that the OS installer had put in LIBS: (without my consent). It subsequently booted well and performed stable. The 060 was not recognised, and therefore I installed the libraries that you have provided me, as per the instructions. The 060 is still not recognised, but now Showconfig displays 68040/68040fpu. The fpu did not appear formerly.

The USB stack works at perfection and the system is stable, so I got nearly all I wanted. Now I just have to figure out how the hell to make CD32 games work. Bubba'n'Stick does not go beyond the intro. Zool works ok. I use idefix's CD32 emulation without a 4-way IDE splitter. I am a registered user of this product.

The other task to be completed is to setup the CD burning software, for what I hope not to encounter many difficulties. By the way, any suggestions in this regard?

In the future I plan to install a PC emulator. I have reserved 200 megs in the hard disk to create a dedicated partition for this purpose.

Thanks again!

[Framiga]

i've just noticed, that you have 0 MB on the mobo.

Slap at least a 4MB on the mobo. (it has a low priority so doesn't slow down your system)

Some ancient progrs needs those mem address.

Bye

[awe4k]

Framiga wrote:
i've just noticed, that you have 0 MB on the mobo.

Slap at least a 4MB on the mobo. (it has a low priority so doesn't slow down your system)

Some ancient progrs needs those mem address.

Bye

Yep! Thanks, Framiga, however… I face another problem. Please, look at this other post of mine here.

[patrik]

@awe4k:

Dont worry if the OS3.1 showconfig just tell you there is a 68040 in your machine. It is written in the days before the 68060 existed and wont be able to recognize a 68060, even if the libraries are correctly installed.

(edit):

You can use WhichAmiga instead if you want a utility that is able to tell you pretty much everything about your Amiga.


/Patrik