Hey guys, just recieved this Cyberstorm Mk II 040, but I cannot get it to work!
I simply removed the A3640 and plugged in the Cyberstorm.... I assume that is all that is required?
Help! :)
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Hey guys, just recieved this Cyberstorm Mk II 040, but I cannot get it to work!
I simply removed the A3640 and plugged in the Cyberstorm.... I assume that is all that is required?
Help! :)
Have you checked the serial number? According to the AMIGA DATABASE, we can read that there are some problems with some cards: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cyberstorm2
Is the INT-2 modification was made?
Perhaps Flash ROM is also to be checked:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=12807
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=55219
Isn't the CSII the only other card that requires one or both of the motherboard clock jumpers to be set to INT rather than EXT? I'm sure one of the Cyberstorms requires this, but can't remember the details...Quote:
Originally Posted by abraXXious
@AndyLandy: I suppose that abraXXious has changed the jumpers because an A3640 was installed first, isn't it?
J102: EXT / J104: INT = I'm right?
Now THIS is weird!
Andy - you were absolutely right! For some reason I already had the jumpers set to EXT (probably from when I had another card installed), and everytime I checked the mb, I saw them set to EXT, so I assumed all was well.
Then, out of desperation, I set them to INT - bingo! System booted immediately.
Now this is the strange bit... Until I removed it this afternoon, I had an A3640 installed, yet it was working perfectly with the jumpers set to EXT!
Weird!
Hehe, that's normal.
You need to set the jumpers to EXT for pretty much every CPU card, except the A3630 and the Cyberstorm II (which are INT). If you had a CSI or CSIII/PPC, you'd leave 'em at EXT.
Bizarre but true!
Thanks for the help fella's. This thread can now be closed.
Oh, and what about the Cyberstorm Mk III? Is it INT or EXT?
I'm fairly certain that's EXT.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraXXious
INT (as far as I'm aware) is only for the A3630 and the CSII, everything else is EXT.
Oh, and since this isn't a trading thread, there's no need to close it. :)
Cooliez, thanks Andy. I have since removed the Cyberstorm Mk III card (a4k mb set to EXT) and installed a known working a3640. As I thought, still not booting. So I think the Cyberstorm Mk III is fine and the problem is elsewhere.
I mixed the chip ram simm in with dozens of other EDO, FP etc etc simms... so I think that might be the prob - I remember a4ks being VERY picky with regards to chip ram.
I have been randomly trying different simms in the chip ram socket (leaving the other sockets empty) and I get a variety of green screens, yellow screens and blank screens. Does this sound like a chip ram prob to you?
It sounds terrifyingly familiar. My A4000 wouldn't take anything I had for ChipRAM. In the end, I had to go crying back to Chiark to get a SIMM that was known as working. All this stuff about "You can use an 8MB SIMM" is nonsense. It's gotta be a 2MB, nothing else will work.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraXXious