Problem with BPPC 040/200 on 1d4 mobo

Thanks for the words :) This card has been the bane of my existence, probably Cosmos too!

I do hope there is a good resolve to this whole situation, but the further we go down the road the less likely it seems. I would still like an official word from a member of the site team as what could have been done in future to help prevent this happening to others as I feel let down and wouldn't want anyone else to lose the time/money etc

Cosmos is it possible to try one more reflash if you do not mind?

Thanks all

Ok card is on way back to me. I plan to continue the crusade to get this little device to work. Does anyone have any further suggestions? Where might I obtain programmed flash for the card assuming flash is faulty?

Whats the cards functionality at the moment?
Does it boot? 040 or 060?

Ok I have the BPPC in my hands. I did an inspection of the card and I think that a J106 is missing from the card.

Can anyone confirm this?

Suspected missing component is next to existing J106. Looking at reference image here: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/downlo..._front_big.jpg it seems that it is missing

http://img526.imageshack.us/i/imag0054s.jpg/

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Mhmm seems I can confirm that the J106 is missing as it is present in this picture of my card with Cosmos. Wonder if this is causing the issues with fastram

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ft6jgTxpbj.../Wasagi_21.JPG

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Does anyone know where I can get this exact replacement part?

Whaou... I have a new J106 (10 uF) ! I'll send you it today !!

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Originally Posted by Cosmos

Whaou... I have a new J106 (10 uF) ! I'll send you it today !!

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Thanks cosmos

Shipped a new high quality AVX 10uF 16v 10% (K) !

Hope this board will works fine !

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Originally Posted by Cosmos

Shipped a new high quality AVX 10uF 16v 10% (K) !

Hope this board will works fine !

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Thanks, hopefully this lil capacitor was causing some of the problems. Fingers crossed and thanks again

Well capacitor replaced, but still no boot. The bppc card just gets in an endless reboot cycle. Wont even boot from floppy.

I have managed to disable card reboot and flash the card. That completed successfully.

Is there anything special I need to do to get the card to boot with no ppc?

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Ok,

Well I can get the board to boot from floppy with no fastram, see below screen

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6343/imag0058ae.jpg

If I try to boot with fastram it constantly resets itself. Also it doesnt appear to want to boot from IDE.

@marc

out of curiosity

1. With Fast RAM installed
> can you boot to the Kickrom early startup?
> can you boot to the PPC early startup?

If its yes to these then the card is working and the fault will likely lay elsewhere.


2. 1D4 motherboard
> Does this board have the timing fixes done?
> Have you tried another revision motherboard?


3. IDE
> with out ram, will the unit load a skeletal 3.0 workbench*
*this is just an FFS formated partition (under 2GB) with just the workbench disk copied to it


4. Have you installed the PPC 040/060 libraries properly?
>This is important, i would download the libs from the unofficial phase 5 site and dump them in LIBS: on your system
>when installing MMULibs ensure that you select the "I have a phase 5 card" option


5. Power
> Its a classic one, lets talk juice, what have you got and how much is it putting out?
> Have you tried another PSU?