Strange crashes..

[rvo_nl]

The simple reason for it most likely being a PSU problem is I use very much the same set up and the answer to it indeed turned out to be the PSU...

Thanks Franko, I'm so much more confident my PSU is getting old. Will get a replacement ASAP.

@wawrzon, thanks for your concern, but Im afraid I ruled out temperature-related issues. Its freezing over in Amsterdam and this problem occurs when booting from cold, starting OS3.9 and opening both CD-rom trays. And its reproducable. Sure, it could be something to do with my IDE-Fix or even a driver, but when I unplug both drives and demand a lot from just the PPC or Bvision I get crashes, too. So both cd-rom driver and ppc/warp3d driver? I dont think so..

In case you are right (we will know soon enough) I will apologise and will have a nice spare PSU

Still dont know how to hook up the PSU to the Elbox power switch though.. Must find out more about that.

[Franko]

Thanks Franko, I'm so much more confident my PSU is getting old. Will get a replacement ASAP.

@wawrzon, thanks for your concern, but Im afraid I ruled out temperature-related issues. Its freezing over in Amsterdam and this problem occurs when booting from cold, starting OS3.9 and opening both CD-rom trays. And its reproducable. Sure, it could be something to do with my IDE-Fix or even a driver, but when I unplug both drives and demand a lot from just the PPC or Bvision I get crashes, too. So both cd-rom driver and ppc/warp3d driver? I dont think so..

In case you are right (we will know soon enough) I will apologise and will have a nice spare PSU

Still dont know how to hook up the PSU to the Elbox power switch though.. Must find out more about that.

I think & hope it will solve your problems, just don't go trying to de-solder the edge connector it's a bit of a wasted effort to be honest...

[rvo_nl]

tbh, I didnt even know you could replace that.. It is somehow related to the power issue though, at one time, when I had the 'strange crashes' again, I took the ppc card out and in again. After that, the problem seemed solved for weeks. Could be coincidence.

[rvo_nl]

well, here I am again with a small update. Ive installed a new ATX power supply and got this ATX-AT adapter from Amigakit that sadly is currently connected to the reset button. This might change in the future. More importantly are the results. Im happy to say that I have not experienced any instability issues. All demanding apps run fine, the power led shines brighter than ever before, I can open the cd drives as often as I like, thats all good.
 
There is bad news, too. Every custom screen I open is a bit garbled. Random stripes and garbage. Not a lot, but still, its not supposed to happen. The Workbench is fine, as is every app that opens on the Workbench screen. Its just stuff like IBrowse, Diropus and Quake (1) that have artifacts. To me it seems this can only be a software-issue and I guess I should do a reinstall. But perhaps Im wrong and this is somehow related to the Bvision?

Also Ive noticed OS4 wont start anymore, it quickly flashes blue when loading the ROM and then nothing happens. This could too be the result of the testing I did when my old PSU was giving up, so I dont know for sure whats causing this.

Any ideas are welcome. But please dont tell me I still have hardware issues.. ?