PPC cards doesnt work on Escom A1200 motherboards ?

[Ryu]

infact the AT PSU i have here has a little power cable on it that fits the BPPC fan connector perfectly... and its one of the newer last AT PSU's so i dont even need to use my cable with it...

[lempkee]

sending me the cable or taking a picture would be saying more than a thousand words

anyway does anyone know where to find this cable? , i checked my psu cables to see if there was one that would fit (just so i could explain my friends better) but there is none.

so i guess you mean one of thoose FAN connectors for atx motherboards? ..

cheers

[amigamad]

My second ppc card wont work in one of my commodore amiga 1200,s  revision 1d4 but works in my escom a1200 not sure what revision it is at the moment . :-)

[Ryu]

@lempkee im sure you know what colours are the 5v lines right? just take them and feed it into the fan connector on the BPPC simple... as for getting hold of a connector just cut one of the led connectors in the tower or the speaker connector or whatever they are all the same size for the job.

[Stedy]

@lempkee
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/A1200_Mobo_fix/a1200_mobo_fix.html

Ian

[RussellB]

I have one of the early Revision1B A1200 released in 1992 and never had any problems with my BPPC and BVision.

[Tomas]

problem is customs here, buy a dirt cheap a1200 fro uk or germany and it will probably cost more than a brand new one due to customs here in norway.

Cant you get one from datakompaniet.no?? Probably more expensive than in uk though...

[cgutjahr]

I had the very same problems with my BPPC (random crashes/freezes with nothing but the BPPC connected to the motherboard).

Exchanging the motherboard cured this problem - but in my case, the motherboard suffering from these problems was from CBM, while the replacement board (which works fine with the BPPC) is from Escom.

I can check the motherboard revisions, but I doubt that you can come up with a formula as simple as "revision x always needs a fix, revision y never does".

[itix]

I had an Escom A1200. BPPC and BVision worked very well on it.

[emeck]

I have a CBM 1200 with 1D.1 mainboard.

It works fine with BPPC + BVision here.

[lempkee]

yes , the guys got their motherboard + ppc stable now that they added the POWER to the ppc and the fan directly from the PSU (like ryu described above) ..

so this thread is somewhat done , i would like to thank everyone for the help and i appriciate every pm and email i got + the irc help .

cheers

[jj]

I am lucky and i bought my A1200 when they first come out, and I have got a 1a revision mobo, that seems to work fine with everything.  I bought a 175/603e-040/25 of some guy for £60 about two years ago who said the board was ####ed and it worked perfectly on my mobo.

U might think, f off u gloating git.  But my mobo has a had a few reapirs on it recently,due to a trace burning out and other things.  So I need a new mobo.

Changes of finding one of the first revisions.....Well ive been trying for two years.....

[downix]

Well, this may explain why my BlizPPC never worked.  I have a 2B mobo and the machine was flakier than you could imagine.

[x56h34]

I still don't understand why more people with Blizzard cards (especially PPC) don't use the genius little program called BlizKick. It will fix a lot of these  problems with appropriate software patches (e.g. PCMCIA reset fix, etc.).