a4000 and no amiga monitor

[bomrat]

hi, i just picked up an amiga a4000 off of the bay...  i have been running an a2000 for along time.  i got the 4000 unpacked and hooked it up to my monitor, and no sync, its running that wacky 15khz.  my a2000 has a scandoubler in it so i have it hooked up to a sun 22in crt monitor, it looks great but now i need to move over to the a4000.  i got a cybergraphix 64 card and how do i get the drivers installed onto the 4000 without video?  anybody have a scripts know how to install the drivers on a wb disk?
thanks

[justthatgood]

Err, you mean you didn't the the Silver 23 pin to 15 pin video dongle? What monitor is it? 1084? 1942?

I mean you could go to the Early Boot Menu and try to boot from OCS/ECS.  I mean that's not if the Lisa chip isn't hurt at all.  After that I would try making a disk with all the cybervision drivers and a special startup on the disk. yeah that would be overkill.

[bomrat]

i got a silver 23 to hd15 dongle... and i am running a 22 in crt from sun microsystems.  how do you get into the early boot menu?
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i didn't get a manual for this system, i would love to find a manual. or a copy of one.

[justthatgood]

Ahh that's just simple.  You hold the two mouse Buttons down while the machine powers up.

I would use that 15kHz monitor because I'm not sure about your Sun monitor, but I have a Sun GDM-20e20 (yeah it's a Sony rebadged Trinton) and it doesn't like syncing down that low.

Just watch to see if any of the diagnostic colors are popping up too

Light Grey, you test passed

Red, You have a ROM error or something probably got loose

Green, Chip Ram error, those SIMMS like to work themselves loose sometimes

Blue, Custome Chip error, just resocket them

Yahoo, some kinda software error, or other things two

Yeah, make sure you are booting in a friendly resolution 640x200 should be nice when you are installing that Cybervision 64.

[bomrat]

well, i ordered an external scandoubler flickerfixer from softhut.  can't wait until it shows up.  does anybody know harddrive size limitations on os30. 39?  scsi and ide?
i have a ton of disks and want to find out that fits best.
i have 4 72gb scsi 2 146gb scsi, 2 80gb ide, laying around
my sun system has 3tb of network storage so, this is just for my amiga if needed.

justthatgood wrote:
Ahh that's just simple.  You hold the two mouse Buttons down while the machine powers up.

[doctorq]

AFAIK SCSI controllers will not care how large harddrives you put on your machine, but IDE will. It's limited to 127 GB, but personally I'm running a 160 GB disk on my SCSI controller (CSPPC) without any problems.

Unless you got yourself an A4000T, you will need either an accelerator with SCSI controller or a Zorro SCSI controller in order to use your SCSI drives though.

[justthatgood]

i have a ton of disks and want to find out that fits best.
i have 4 72gb scsi 2 146gb scsi, 2 80gb ide, laying around
my sun system has 3tb of network storage so, this is just for my amiga if needed

 :-o  Wow, that's a crap load of big SCSI drives. I'm sure a lot of use would just love to have even half a terabyte let alone a render farm array.  My suggestion since you have access to some big guns like that is check the version of your Buster chip.  If it's Buster-11 we are cool. If it's Buster-9 we might have some problems.

Get you a scsi card like the FastLane, A4091 or if you feel like you have a big enough wallet get you Phase 5's Cyberstorm PowerPC accelarator.  Not only will you have the rough and tough real of a SCSI UW connection, you will kick a wickedly fast 68060 and a PPC to tear something up.