External Phoenix A1000 Expansion Jumpers needed

[save2600]

Received one of these today and not too surprisingly, doesn't do squat. Light comes on, but that's it. Does not recognize RAM on the 2091 card and the HD does not spin up. Plugged the power cable for the HD directly from both the Expansion Chassis and the 2091 card. Nadda. Removed the seemingly dead card to allow pass-thru to my external MiniMegs 2mb card - nadda.

I suspect I need to be aware of how the 4-5  jumper settings are supposed to be set. And of course, no info on the net about them either. Anyone here happen to have one of these? They supposedly made 10,000 of them - I surely can't be the only one with one, could I? Why the 'F' are there never any manuals for these things??  Frustrated as usual working on this crap. Thanks for any help.

As it sits now - with nothing inside the Phoenix box, the A1000 does not even boot up. It loads Kickstart and then hangs. No matter the jumper settings.

Tried it on 2 A1000's. One even has all its ground mods done to the daughterboard. Same exact symptom. Computer loads Kickstart and just hangs.

[shaf]

I think I have a document on the Phoenix board somewhere.
I post as soon as I find the Information.
If it's anything like the Rejuvinator board there were some mods required iF you were using the 256K front RAM expansion.

Shaf

[save2600]

Hmm.... kooky. I don't remember reading about any conflicts with the 256kb expansion back in the day. If you have docs on this expansion box though - that would be super.

Anywho... after a little bit of troubleshooting, discovered one bad diode on the mainboard of the Phoenix - not the power supply. System now boots and it sees the HD. Still have no access to anything hooked to it externally, but that must just be a jumper setting by now. I'm not going to give a rats ass if it doesn't care for anything hooked externally (already done the 3ft. TI-99/4A expansion thing a long time ago, shank you very much), but I need it to recognize an internal memory board at least. The 2mb configured on the 2091 is BS as it conflicts with my TwinKick 3.1 ROM bootdisk. Here's hoping the SupraRAM board autoconfigs at a space TwinKick likes and the 2091 can use it's 2MB of RAM as cache.

[JimS]

I used to have one of these back in the day. I used it with a Trumpcard and a CBM 2058 RAM card. I didn't push my luck with an external expansion though. I also ran a heavier ground lead out of the 1000 case and into the Phoenix case. I don't know if that helped or not, but it did work well for me.

[shaf]

Hello,

I found a copy of the Phoenix Manual. The jumper configurations are not well documented.
The manual stated that Kickstart 1.2 will not function , you must use Kickstart 1.3 there are also problems with Non Motorola 68000 CPUs.

The Kickstart ROM should be in ROM#1 and If using an external A2000 Card set the jumper as follows:
 L15, L18, L19, L117 (All Off)

Shaf

The Rejunivator Baord was a lot less complicated than this. The again the Phoenix has more features, 8 MB Ram expansion (optonal Board), Internal HDD etc.

[save2600]

Oh no! Thanks for taking the time to look all this stuff up, but there's been a miscommunication here. I'm talking about the Phoenix Zorro II expansion box - not that super sexy replacement mobo fabled to exist  

There's 5 jumpers on this bad boy:

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=&company=phoenix