A500 Rev6A Board and Kickstart 3.1

[palmop]

Yup, it says 40.68.





and it was inserted properly, with the curved ends matching (otherwise you get a black screen with nothing)

[N7VQM]

Ok, what's error number you get with this rom installed?

[poweramiga2002]

If the rev 7 is rare how rare is my rev 8a1 with 2 meg agness and 2 meg fast ram on board ? and yes it works with 3.1 roms no wires :-)  :-)  :-)

[palmop]

The Error Message is:

Software Failure
0000 0003 Task 00c03500

If you wait, machine resets itself and 30 sec. later, you see the same error. It is a loop.

Today, I tried another 3.1 ROM I had (I got it when I first got the machine), same error. So I am beginning to wonder if it is related to the board. I put the 1.3 ROM back and no errors, regular boot screen.

[Linchpin]

Just a little word of warning,,, i was upgrading my kick start under the slight influence of alcohol ( always makes my wanna fiddle with my miggy! ). Anyway, to cut a long story short, i took the kicker ( i think it was 2.04), and put it in the miggy, (lineing up pin 1 with the ° mark on the rom holder.. booted up.. and black screen. Then i let my drunken eyes focus on the chip, seems there are more holes than legs on the bloody chip and i was in the wrong one... and.. it got a little hot. Infact, i burned my hand on it. This proberbly has nothing to do with this AT all, just thought i would put it here :-) (thanks to SWAUG for giving me a new kick! ) Anyway, the chip was fried.

Thanks for listening, you were great :-)

issue 1 from 36 of Kevs Drunken adventures in miggyland


Hahaha :-)

Kevin

[Tenacious]

I'm probably wrong about this, but, I thought KS3.1 required at least 1 Meg of real chip ram.  If this is true, then the 512K in the trap door has to be mapped into chip ram.  There are many articles on Aminet detailing how to do this.  Beware, some are better than others.