Apollo 2030 troubles...

[keropi]

I have bought from eBay as working an Apollo2030 card for my A2000... so I unplugged my GVP-030/40 accelerator, put the apollo , and.... nothing....
the monitor powers-up (through the scandoubler) but it never boots... I also diasbled ram, scsi, ram+scsi, but no-go... I use it on a rev 6.2 mobo with KS3.1 and 2MB chipram upgrade...
any ideas? or is it dead? (most propablly)
thanks!  :-)

[tokyoracer]

It doesn't sound good... :-(

All I can say is try removing it and replacing it, or put it in a different slot. :-?
Failing that, you could try swapping CPU's if you have any spare, have you looked hard to see any phisical imperfections?

[alexh]

tokyoracer wrote:
put it in a different slot. :-?

AFAIK, there is only one CPU slot on an A2000 (or any big box Amiga)

I'd try to use a real KS1.3 ROM, maybe that is it?

[keropi]

a real 1.3 rom??? why? I have a real 3.1 rom on my A2000, and currently running OS3.9...

[orange]

IIRC, I've run Apollo 2030 with KS3.1
I only had to disable SCSI.

[alexh]

keropi wrote:
a real 1.3 rom??? why?

If you can, try it. Just to the point where the kickstart hand appears.

Accelerators have Boot-ROM's on them, and they can be tied into the Kickstart ROM. If you have a particularly old accelerator with an early Boot-ROM it may not be KS2.x+ compatible.

Not sure this applies to the Apollo 2030 though, there are some comments on the internet saying it doesnt work with anything less than KS2.04 but I am unsure this is true.

[clemenza]

I think your 2030 is probably dead. I use my 2030 on a rev. 6.2 board too and I believe that it is the most trouble-free accelerator for the A2000. I didn't have to disable anything - it worked 100% the moment I installed it. One thing though: did you tried it without installing the RAM SIMMs?

[keropi]

yes, I have tried it with and withou ram on it too...
I think it is dead too  :-( also I don't have any other rom for my A2000 except the 3.1 one... IIRC apollo2030 needs KS2+ ...

[voxel]

Apollo 2030 cards are the worst accelerator cards I ever seen for the Amiga :-(

It are slow (even doesn't compare to the slowest GVP card) and  there is no real scsi chip on it, only one big MAC230 (if I remember well) that recreate it (badly) among other things...

For getting mine working I was forced to install an internal scsi hard drive WITH active termination AND an external active termination, as shown :

HD + active terminator --- A2030 scsi --- external scsi plug + active terminator

I was forced to use two identical edo simms, and mine was limited to 32MB total :-(

Try this, if it's still not working try changing the kicktart rom back to 2.0 (though my A2000 was 3.0)

tell us what's next :-)

[clemenza]

My 2030 works flawlessly with a 3.1 ROM chip. I think it's a great accelerator (for it's price). As I said, I never had any problems with it...

[keropi]

well I give up. I am 99% certain my 2030 is dead.  :madashell:

[clemenza]

Don't you have any other 68030 accelerator to exchange the 030 chip ? (just for test...)

[keropi]

unfortunatelly both my gvp and apollo have the 030's soldered...

[alexh]

Get your money back!!

[keropi]

alexh wrote:
Get your money back!!

yeah, I wish!