4000t CSMKIII 060 question

[amesie2]

I have one of these accels in a 4000t and am wondering why I keep getting a GURU everytime I try booting my system?

I did install the software as it says before installing the accel. in my system. The board has 128M on it and 16M on the motherboard. I don't have any other cards installed.

I did find that when Setpatch is commented out it will boot or if I use rom2fast before the Setpatch command it will also boot. What gives with this board? any help would be great.

[mpiva]

I have a CSMkIII in my A4000T.  No problems here.  At one time my system would GURU once on every cold boot and then reboot fine.  I think I solved that by adjusting the settings of the Cyberstorm's SCSI controller (in the end I completely disabled the A4000T's built-in SCSI controller as I wasn't using it anyway and having it on slowed boot times.  Is your hard drive on the CS's SCSI, the A4000T's SCSI, or the A4000T's IDE?  Try disabling the ones you're not using and see if that helps.

There's also some ROM settings in the CS's BIOS menu.  I think there may be a rom2fast type setting in there (but I'm not sure).  Anyway, try playing around with those settings and see  if you get any better luck.

[alewis]

What version ROMS you using? You might need to use one of the switches with setpatch

what version 68060 and 68040 libraries - download the latest to ensure you are using the right ones.

Try removing the onboard 16mb - its slower than the 128mb on the Cyberstorm anyway.

[amesie2]

How do I get into the CS bios settings? I have been trying to figure this out for a while.

I am using the 4000t SCSI only I haven't tried the CS SCSI yet.

Thanx for the reply

[amesie2]

I am not sure of the version rom I have I will have to look, I am using 68060 libraries from OS 3.9.

I will have to try removing the onboard memory and see if that helps.


Thanx

[amiga92570]

I agree, some old libs will give you guru's. Try disabling all processor libs. If it boots go here: http://phase5.a1k.org/index.php?id=0 and get the newest librarys.  :idea:

[mpiva]

amesie2 wrote:
How do I get into the CS bios settings? I have been trying to figure this out for a while.

Thanx for the reply

Hold down ESC when you turn the computer on.

[amesie2]

I tried this already and nothing happened other than the system booted up.

I also tried holding the esc key after a reset and still the system just boots up.

[mpiva]

Hmmm...  Not sure why that wouldn't work.  The only thing I can think of is try applying the latest Flash updates.  If you have the latest libs and the flash updates and ESC still won't bring up the CS's BIOS menu, then I think it must be a hardware problem.

[zipper]

Perhaps the kb initializes so late that it doesn't notice that a key is pressed. Try to make a couple of clicks before you keep the key pressed down.

[amesie2]

OK, I flashed the card to the latest update from the phase 5 sight, now when I press ESC on startup I do get a screen that comes up but it is scrambled. I booted the computer up and noticed in the screen mode settings there is a new monitor setting installed (BootVGA:productivity). I set my monitor to this setting (1084S) to see the result and sure enough the monitor did the same thing as when I held the ESC key on start-up.

Is there some way I can change the screen setting for the CSMKIII setup screen? if I can't I will have to get a scan-doubler or something to be able to see this early start-up.

Thanx again for the support.

[stopthegop]

I think the early startup utility for the phase5 cards outputs a 31khz signal by default, so I don't think a regular non-multisync Amiga monitor will work.  I believe initially you need a VGA multisync to see it.  Then once you get into the utility you can change the default from 31khz to 15khz.  Once you save the changes then a regular Amiga monitor should work.