A600 4mb and A500 4mb/8mb fastmem Expansion boards

May you post your crashed WHDLoad screens to analyse your problem ?
Of course it is possible to get a faulty one , but you´ll only get some certainty by installing this board in another A600 .
Old school programs like sysinfo and so on reports , for example , only 4MB instead of 5,5 MB ,thats right .
Based on a lack of interest for smaller Amigas , the edited one was for a friend ,but without a doubt the WHDLoad program worked great , tested it with more than 40 games , nothing crashed .
Naturally , because of an absence of 68010 or better , you will get some restrictions on WHDLoad , but thats logical .

Ok, here are the pics :

1.5 Mb config - gives me 0 fast memory, with some strange "private" memory:

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/15mb1.jpg


http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/15mb2.jpg

4 Mb config. Works the best of them all, but still some games don't work when they should :

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/4mb1.jpg

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/4mb2.jpg

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/4mb3.jpg

5.5 Mb config: Gives me 4Mb fast memory with some strange private memory (the same is reported by all programs I tried ... only 4mb). Note that almost ALL whdload games report the same GURU error below !

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/55mb1.jpg

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/55mb2.jpg

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/55mb3.jpg

8Mb config... reported as 8Mb, works for around 80% of WHDLoad games that work fine in 4Mb config, the rest all report same Error as below !!!

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/8mb1.jpg

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/8mb2.jpg

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/A600/8mb3.jpg

This is the best I could do... NOTE that this A600 had the capacitors replaced and is working perfectly otherwise, haven't had any problems with other expansions in it.

I would really like some customer support from Kipper or anyone else on this subject, since everyone else doesn't have any problems with this. But as pictures show I DO have problems ! :(

You do realize that many games crash in whdload on 010/68k cpu's anyway because they where ported for the a1200's 020 CPU?

I found this when I had a pimped out 500+ and so I sold it and bought an a1200 for whdload and haven't had any issues since.

I built a more standard 500 with a HxC to play classic disk games and that is IMO a much better solution for ECS gaming than whdload on an a600.

@kipper2k

Hi my friend :)

Don't forget to send feedbacks (positive or negative) to buyers :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by djos

You do realize that many games crash in whdload on 010/68k cpu's anyway because they where ported for the a1200's 020 CPU?

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Come on... of course I know that. Please check my posts and you will see that there is a problem with the memory configuration and the whdload games I am testing either work on 68000 identical configuration in winuae (Yes, I know that winuae could still have a bug that would make them work but people said it is very unlikely) OR they work in 4Mb configuration and don't work in 8Mb one.
If you check the pictures above you will see what I mean - the 1.5 and 5.5 configuration do not work AT ALL. There are quite a lot of games that don't work in 8Mb configuration and work fine in 4Mb configuration. ALSO - since the posting I have been playing a few games (on 4Mb config) and some of them Crash in the middle of gameplay and similar. I am not saying that ALL winuae games should work... but this is VERY strange behaviour.

Kipper - it has been a long time now since I reported this and there was no customer support so far. I would hate to give negative feedback :(

@Tom-cat just making sure.

I got an email from kipper this morning, he was just leaving to go to Winnipeg and I'm sure how long he'll be there.

I suspect he got overloaded with the 1000 project and is still catching up.

@kipper2k...

Got the a500 8mb today. Thanks. Very nice. But...got a bit of prob with the A500 8mb and the A570 CD on my A500+. I'll keep it simple.

With Kickstart 1.3 I just get a continous reboot on startup. With Kickstart 2.0 I get a "Device Bad" relating to the A508...but will still boot into WB with 0mb from the 8mb board. Those two results are with the A570 turned on or off.

With the A570 completely disconnected, and the 8mb board installed, it shows 8mb.

The A570 by itself works fine when the 8mb board is not fitted.

Seems the two don't like each other when both connected :nuts:

Anyone with similar problems?
Any workaround? Is it possible to disable some of the RAM?

BTW...this is not a dig at Kippers' device at all. I understand these things happen and there may not be a fix.

@mods

If you wish to move this into it's own thread...do what you do :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Astral

@kipper2k...

Got the a500 8mb today. Thanks. Very nice. But...got a bit of prob with the A500 8mb and the A570 CD on my A500+. I'll keep it simple.

With Kickstart 1.3 I just get a continous reboot on startup. With Kickstart 2.0 I get a "Device Bad" relating to the A508...but will still boot into WB with 0mb from the 8mb board. Those two results are with the A570 turned on or off.

With the A570 completely disconnected, and the 8mb board installed, it shows 8mb.

The A570 by itself works fine when the 8mb board is not fitted.

Seems the two don't like each other when both connected :nuts:

Anyone with similar problems?
Any workaround? Is it possible to disable some of the RAM?

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Iirc, this is a known issue and one reason this ram-board doesnt work in CDTV's.

mine works fine with my 600 however the socket did break on me

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Originally Posted by djos

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Originally Posted by Astral

@kipper2k...

Got the a500 8mb today. Thanks. Very nice. But...got a bit of prob with the A500 8mb and the A570 CD on my A500+. I'll keep it simple.

With Kickstart 1.3 I just get a continous reboot on startup. With Kickstart 2.0 I get a "Device Bad" relating to the A508...but will still boot into WB with 0mb from the 8mb board. Those two results are with the A570 turned on or off.

With the A570 completely disconnected, and the 8mb board installed, it shows 8mb.

The A570 by itself works fine when the 8mb board is not fitted.

Seems the two don't like each other when both connected :nuts:

Anyone with similar problems?
Any workaround? Is it possible to disable some of the RAM?

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Iirc, this is a known issue and one reason this ram-board doesnt work in CDTV's.

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Well that would quite possibly explain it :thumbsup: